ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,371, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Dynamic routing of autonomous vehicles" was invented by Catherine Jones Franey (Waltham, Mass.) and Jeffrey Larson (Ashland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for dynamically routing pickers and autonomous vehicles to avoid areas closed to travel by the autonomous vehicles within a warehouse. A processor in communication with an autonomous vehicle and an electronic device operated by a user (e.g., handheld device) may, in response to detecting that the electronic device diverges from a path of the autonomou...