ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,180, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).
"Automatic inventory of a warehouse" was invented by Charles Blondel (Cras, France) and Yannick Bodin (Lachapelle d'Armentieres, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for updating an inventory of objects located in a hoisting area wherein a load is handled by a hoisting appliance equipped with a scanning device and spanning a hoisting area, a control device: generates a trajectory of the hoisting appliance for navigating through the hoisting area taking in account a time interval and log data, wherein the trajector...