ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,097, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TRUMPF TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Ditzingen, Germany).
"Optics-based correction of the position of a mobile unit" was invented by Peter Epperlein (Leonberg, Germany) and Ferdinand Baaij (Ditzingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method locates a mobile unit in an industrial manufacturing environment. The method includes: A) rough locating of the mobile unit by way of rough position data of a manufacturing execution system (MES); B) moving a sensor unit comprising a sensor to the mobile unit on a basis of the rough position data; C) receiving a coded signal emitted by the mobile unit by...