ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,338, issued on March 18, was assigned to GET FABRIC LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"Method for turning a rails-mounted lift-robot" was invented by Shay Cohen (Shoham, Israel), Guy Blotnik (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Nadav Laor (Hod Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for turning robots at an intersection of tracks. The robot moves in a first motion mode to reach a first position at the intersection. The robot turns over a corner of the intersection that includes continuous tracks connecting a vertical track and a horizontal track, whereby reaching a second position at the intersection. The robot moves in a second motion mod...