ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,146, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Autonomous transport vehicle with vision system" was invented by Akram Zahdeh (Wilmington, Mass.) and Paul Besl (Wilmington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous guided vehicle includes a frame, a drive section, a payload handler, a sensor system, and a supplemental sensor system. The sensor system has electro-magnetic sensors, each responsive to interaction or interface of a sensor emitted or generated electro-magnetic beam or field with a physical characteristic, the electro-magnetic beam or field being disturbed by interaction or interface wit...