ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,513, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus for detecting position of pallet for truck unloading" was invented by Young Min Kim (Osan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pallet position detection apparatus is provided. The detection apparatus and method checks information on a pallet disposed on a vehicle by recognizing an Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag or a Quick Response (QR) code attached to the truck, and recognizes an exact position of the pallet by detecting a reflector positioned on the pallet by a Lidar sensor, and unloads the pallet from the...