ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,491, issued on May 27, was assigned to DECKEL MAHO Pfronten GmbH (Pfronten, Germany).

"System comprising a transport device for transporting a carrier for goods in transport, a carrier for goods in transport and a receiving apparatus" was invented by Michael Trenkle (Pfronten, Germany) and Sebastian Riedel (Eisenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system, comprising: a transport device 100 comprising a transport vehicle 110 which can be moved freely on a base area and a handling device 150 provided on the transport vehicle 110, a carrier for goods in transport 200 which can be received by t...