ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,475, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Autonomous transport vehicle" was invented by Akram Zahdeh (Wilmington, Mass.) and Todd Kepple (Wilmington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous transport robot vehicle for transporting a payload, includes a chassis that is a space frame formed of longitudinal hollow section beams, arrayed to form longitudinally extended sides of the space frame, and respective front and rear lateral beams closing opposite ends of the space frame. A payload support is connected to the chassis. Ride wheels depend from the chassis. The ride wheels and chassis in co...