ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,785, issued on May 13, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Automated guided vehicle and method of calibrating object-fetching route" was invented by Ruei-Jhih Hong (Nantou County, Taiwan), Yong-Ren Li (Taichung, Taiwan) and Ta-Cheng Ma (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated guided vehicle (AGV) includes an image capturing device, a storage device, a fetching device, a driving device and a processor. The processor is configured to execute: controlling the AGV to move from a starting position to a target position according to a navigation coordinate system, the targe...