ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,690, issued on July 15, was assigned to FL Technology GmbH (Griesheim, Germany).
"Logistics space and method for operating same" was invented by Stefan Schmitz-Galow (Griesheim, Germany), Oliver Matipa (Griesheim, Germany), Andreas Schweigert (Griesheim, Germany) and Ali Montazeri Najafabadi (Griesheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a logistics area (15, 115, 215, 315, 415) comprising a plurality of planar units (1, 101, 201, 301, 401), wherein each planar unit (1, 101, 201, 301, 401) is equipped with at least one encoder (5) having at least one sensor array (11) for determining the position ...