ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,514, issued on July 1, was assigned to MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/S (Odense, Denmark).

"Autonomous mobile robot system for transporting payloads" was invented by Michael Ejstrup Hansen (Morud, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a transport system comprising an Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMRs) (1) and the equipment to be moved (2), which can be operated safely and efficiently within an industrial/commercial environment, while the AMRs (1), as well as the equipment to be moved (2), can be produced in a cost-efficient way. A particular object of the invention is to: providing supporting members (4) of the...