ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,924, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for truck unloading by sensing presence or absence of pallet" was invented by Young Min Kim (Osan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic truck unloading apparatus and method are provided. The automatic truck unloading apparatus generates sensing information regarding the presence or absence of a pallet on the truck by implementing sensors installed in a region of a truck and a region of a storage area, and sets optimal transport paths for multiple unmanned forklift vehicles based on the sensing information, ...