ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,722, issued on April 8, was assigned to Schiller Automatisierungstechnik GmbH (Osterhofen, Germany).
"Method for operating a means of transport" was invented by Peter Stoiber (Regen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a conveying device (1), such as a truck or a forklift, which is equipped with a transport device (6) for transporting an object (2), includes the following steps: i) arranging an object (2) in an arrangement region (15) of the transport device (6); ii) contactless measurement (53) of the object (2) using a distance measurement apparatus (10); iii) determining a safety zone (30) at the conveyin...