US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 22 for "Systems and methods for controlling autonomous mobile robots in a manufacturing environment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,781, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for controlling autonomous mobile robots in a manufacturing environment" was invented by Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Gregory P. Linkowski (Dearborn, Mich.), Meghna Menon (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Sarah Garrow (Detroit) and Geoffrey Horowitz (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a plurality of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in a manufacturing environment having an intersection includes obtaining a plurality of routes associated with the plurality of AMRs, velocity information associated ...