ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,915, issued on March 25, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Charging of an AGV" was invented by Haofeng Bai (Vasteras, Sweden), Panagiotis Bakas (Vasteras, Sweden), Ahmed Abdelhakim (Vasteras, Sweden), Rajakrishnan Radjassamy (Plano, Texas) and Edward Clark Fontana (Rockwall, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging system for an automated guided vehicle, AGV, is presented. The charging system includes an offboard, meshed charging grid and onboard contact pads. The offboard, meshed charging grid including a charging pole in each grid point, wherein adjacent charging poles are configured with opposite polari...