ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,871, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS LLC (Mason, Ohio).

"Adaptive automated guided vehicles and methodologies of operation" was invented by Vinod Kumar Sakali (Hyderabad, India), Ravi Kumar Avupati (Hyderabad, India) and Saravanan Sadasivan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide adaptive autonomous guided vehicles capable of performing a myriad of specialized task operations. Some embodiments include a base vehicle, a vertical carousel including at least one carousel conveyor shelf, where the vertical carousel is affixable to a top of the based vehi...