ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,046, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TGW Logistics GmbH (Marchtrenk, Austria).
"Transport and manipulation system and method for transporting load carriers" was invented by Markus Winkler (Altmuenster, Austria) and Maximilian Beinhofer (Thalheim bei Wels, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport and manipulation system has an activity area in which a provisioning device is arranged which includes takeover and handover stations. The activity area includes a working area in which static workstations for manually executing processing orders are arranged, and a travel area, in which autonomous transport vehicles can move. ...