US Patent Issued to Lineage Logistics on Sept. 23 for "Controlling automated pallet movers" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,045, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lineage Logistics LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Controlling automated pallet movers" was invented by Christopher Frank Eckman (San Francisco), Daniel Walet (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands) and Frank Baijens (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated warehouse system can include automated pallet movers, a physical space in which the automated pallet movers operate, and a control system to provide commands to each of the automated pallet movers for operating in the physical space. The commands can include a pallet transportation command including a pallet identifier of a pal...