US Patent Issued to Symbotic on Oct. 14 for "Autonomous transport vehicle and health assessment method therefor" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,246, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Symbotic LLC (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Autonomous transport vehicle and health assessment method therefor" was invented by Daniel J. Burns (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous transport vehicle for transporting a payload comprising, a frame forming a transport payload area of the autonomous transport vehicle, the payload area includes a payload contact support surface that defines a payload support plane of the autonomous transport vehicle that supports the payload held in the transport payload area with vehicle traverse, a payload handling system connected to the frame, ...