US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Feb. 10 for "System and method for coordinating mobile robots with workers to access task locations" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,173, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"System and method for coordinating mobile robots with workers to access task locations" was invented by Mark Thomas Fountain (Hitchin, Great Britain), Brian Califano (Point Pleasant, N.J.) and Noel Steven Massey (Carpentersville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of coordinating a mobile robot with a worker to access a task location of a task includes: obtaining the task location of the task for the mobile robot; defining a restricted region about the task location, the restricted region defining a region in which the mobile ro...