ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,570, issued on July 22, was assigned to MetraLabs GmbH Neue Technologien und Systeme (Ilmenau, Germany).

"Autonomous industrial truck" was invented by Stefan Ulbrich (Leinefelde-Worbis, Germany), Andreas Bley (Niestetal, Germany), Erik Wolf (Ilmenau, Germany), Benjamin Fischer (Ilmenau, Germany), Christian Martin (Ilmenau, Germany), Johannes Trabert (Ilmenau, Germany), Ahmed I Syleiman (Ilmenau, Germany) and Christian Sternitzke (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transporting loads is a fundamental component of intralogistics. Autonomous industrial trucks can be used for this. The autonomous industrial truck claimed acc...