ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,665, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Docking system and associated method" was invented by Sanghyun Hong (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Kurt Michael Lundeen (Novi, Mich.) and Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking system is provided. The docking system includes a docking station and an autonomous mobile robot (AMR). The AMR includes a processor, a camera electrically connected to the processor, a lidar system electrically connected to the processor, and a memory. The memory may have instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perfor...