ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,909, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AutoStore Technology AS (Nedre Vats, Norway).
"Remotely operated vehicle with an arrangement to provide a pre-alert and tracking of a position of the vehicle" was invented by Trond Austrheim (Etne, Norway) and Oystein Gjerdevik (Skjold, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remotely operated vehicle includes an arrangement to provide a pre-alert and tracking of a position of the vehicle following a travelling route relative to tracks laid out on rails in x-, y-directions on a rail system. The vehicle has first and seconds sets of wheels connected to drives for moving the vehicle in correspondin...