US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on May 13 for "Stand-alone self-driving material-transport vehicle" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,146, issued on May 13, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Stand-alone self-driving material-transport vehicle" was invented by Ryan Christopher Gariepy (Kitchener, Canada), Jason Scharlach (Kitchener, Canada), Andrew Clifford Blakey (Kitchener, Canada), Simon Drexler (Kitchener, Canada) and James Dustin Servos (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a stand-alone self-driving material-transport vehicle are provided. A method includes: displaying a graphical map on a graphical user-interface device based on a map stored in a storage medium of the vehicle, ...