US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on June 30 for "Method, computer program, device and communication interface for a communication between a robot and transportation equipment, and transport means and robot" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,968, issued on June 30, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Method, computer program, device and communication interface for a communication between a robot and transportation equipment, and transport means and robot" was invented by Timo Winkelvos (Sickte, Germany) and Daniel Schutz (Lehre, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, device and communication interface provide communication between a robot and transport equipment, wherein application protocols for applications compatible with the transport equipment are received by the transport equipment or the robot. If necessary, the robot is initializ...