ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,032, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BEIJING JINGDONG QIANSHI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for determining position of rack" was invented by Peng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for determining a position of a shelf are provided. The method may include: obtaining a number of automated guided vehicles with shelf scanning devices; determining, based on the number of the automated guided vehicles, a scanning area of a place to which each automated guided vehicle belongs; determining, based on the scanning area, a scanning route of the scanning area to which each automated g...