ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,179, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Control network for mobile robots" was invented by Zhibo Pang (Vasteras, Sweden), Krister Landernas (Hallstahammar, Sweden), Ognjen Dobrijevic (Vasteras, Sweden) and Pawel Wiatr (Upplands Vasby, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control network for supporting one or more mobile robots operable in a facility includes: a fleet management system authorized to perform path planning and path execution for the mobile robots; and a network management system authorized to configure and perform resource allocation in an access network, which is operable to pro...