ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,342, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Autofuel ApS (Grindsted, Denmark).
"Robotic system for automatic refuelling of vehicles" was invented by Johannes Sijbrand Vogelaar (Niederzier, Germany), Erwin Meijerink (Emmeloord, Netherlands), Esben Von Buchwald (Bronshoj, Denmark) and Jonas Thor Olsen (Bastad, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic refuelling system and method for automatically operating a fuel station for refuelling vehicles includes a first detection unit for identifying the vehicle, a collaborative robot arm, and an adapter tool connected to the collaborative robot arm. The system is configured for detecting an...