US Patent Issued to The Raymond on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for generating coverage fields for obstacle detection" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,064, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to The Raymond Corp. (Greene, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for generating coverage fields for obstacle detection" was invented by Anthony V. D'Accolti (Manlius, N.Y.), Joel N. Sunny (Mineola, N.Y.) and Robert P. McLachlan (Walton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a coverage field for obstacle detection. The system includes a sensor to detect obstacles. The system further includes a material handling vehicle guided by a guidance system and a controller. The controller is configured to: generate a coverage field for the sensor, receive position characteristics of t...