ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,516, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Coordinating automated pallet movers and conveying systems in an automated warehouse" was invented by Kaitlyn Garifi (Irvine, Calif.), Daniel Walet (Oakland, Calif.) and Rene van Eekelen (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in a pallet-conveying system. The pallet-conveying system includes a vehicle-traversing loop, multiple vehicles configured to travel around the vehicle-traversing loop and move pallets around the vehicle-traversing loop, an inbound conve...