US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Persistent vehicle identification for an independent cart system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,532, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Persistent vehicle identification for an independent cart system" was invented by Zhuo Liu (Shanghai), Hao Yang (Shanghai), Haihui Lu (Shanghai), Yuhong Huang (Acton, Mass.), Brian M. Perreault (Stow, Mass.), Azeddine Choumach (Littleton, Mass.), Daniel I. Lanier (North Billerica, Mass.) and Robert H. Schmidt (Germantown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying movers in an independent cart system includes movers having at least one magnet and sensors generating a feedback signal responsive to detecting a magn...