US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on July 1 for "Driverless transport vehicle having a payload lifting apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,516, issued on July 1, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Driverless transport vehicle having a payload lifting apparatus" was invented by Sven Mainz (Hofheim am Taunus, Germany) and Sascha Gerber (Bad Schwalbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driverless automatically guided transport vehicle for conveying payloads for example a material transport vehicle in a factory. The transport vehicle comprises a payload lifting apparatus which is configured to lift the load such that said load can be transported in the lifted state and an eccentric drive to perform a lifting operation of th...