ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,539, issued on May 20, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Method for operating a transport system and corresponding transport system" was invented by Vladimir Idelevitch (Nuremberg, Germany), Maximilian Ertl (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Stephan Beutler (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a transport system, which has a large number of transport mechanisms, and a corresponding transport system."
The patent was filed on March 26, 2018, under Application No. 15/935,425.
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