ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,364, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZF CV Systems Global GmbH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Method for sensing the position of a mobile, exchangeable load carrier which can be transported via a utility vehicle" was invented by Philip Meyer-Rossler (Giesen, Germany) and Janik Ricke (Uetze, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for detecting the position of at least one mobile, interchangeable load carrier that is movable by a commercial vehicle, in a delimited detection area, in particular a depot, in which the at least one mobile, interchangeable load carrier is moved by vehicles. Accommodation operations and/or offloading e...