US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Coordinated motion of a robot and vehicle in an independent cart system" (Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,097, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Coordinated motion of a robot and vehicle in an independent cart system" was invented by Yuhong Huang (Acton, Mass.), Jatin P. Bhatt (Highland Heights, Ohio), Robert H. Schmidt (Germantown, Wis.), Arun K. Guru (Brookfield, Wis.) and Robert B. Hirschinger (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motion is coordinated between a robot and a mover in an independent cart system. Positions for a mover along a track for the independent cart system and for each axis of motion of the robot mounted on the mover are received at the mot...