ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,102, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hans Kunz GmbH (Hard, Austria).

"Method for controlling a movement of a load in a workspace of a load transport device" was invented by Johannes Karl Eberharter (Hard, Austria), Robert Lang (Innsbruck, Austria) and Georg Klapper (Hard, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a movement of a load in a workspace by a control device, including a) acquiring target coordinates to be set of a target point in the workspace towards which a load pick-up apparatus is to be moved, b) determining a load measured value by measuring the weight of the load using a load measuring device, ...