ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,194, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THK Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Autonomous mobile robot linkage system and autonomous mobile robot" was invented by Takeo Karaushi (Tokyo), Kosei Mochizuki (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Kitano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous mobile robot linkage system (1) includes a plurality of sign posts (SP0 to SP2) disposed along a travel path (10); an autonomous mobile robot (20) which moves along the travel path (10) while reading the plurality of sign posts (SP0 to SP2) in order using a camera and performs predetermined operations in order of pre-set operation numbers based on identification numbers re...