ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,440, issued on July 8, was assigned to VisionNav Robotics USA Inc. (Acworth, Ga.).

"Path planning method of handling device, handling device and electronic device" was invented by Mu Fang (Acworth, Ga.), Bingchuan Yang (Acworth, Ga.) and Yujie Lu (Acworth, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a path planning method of a handling device, a handling device, and an electronic device. The method includes: based on position information of a target goods placement area in a truck bed and an initial position, determining a handling path corresponding to the target goods placement area, where the handling path includes a first handl...