US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung on March 11 for "Vehicle for transporting cargo" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,637, issued on March 11, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Vehicle for transporting cargo" was invented by Jan Behling (Munich), Mathias Rotgeri (Munich), Jan Soeren Emmerich (Munich), Dirk Hoening (Munich), Patrick Klokowski (Munich), Christian Hammermeister (Munich) and Michael Ten Hompel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle for transporting cargo includes a cargo receiving portion which is located on a chassis, the cargo receiving portion having a retaining element that secures the cargo at the edge of the cargo receiving portion and a vehicle control unit...