US Patent Issued to Verity on Oct. 14 for "Predicting a path of material handling equipment and determining an obstacle-free path" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,543, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich).

"Predicting a path of material handling equipment and determining an obstacle-free path" was invented by Luca Gherardi (Oberrieden, Switzerland) and Markus Florian Hehn (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining obstacle-free paths of an areal vehicle in a warehouse and for determining shortcuts to be generated in the warehouse to increase the number of obstacle-free paths available to the areal vehicle. The systems and methods include predicting at least one location of an inventory moving device in the warehouse based on the sta...