Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous vehicles performing inventory management
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Application No.: US16967396Application Date: 2017-09-20
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Publication No.: US11941579B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: Aislan Gomide Foina
- Applicant: Aislan Gomide Foina
- Applicant Address: US CA El Cerrito
- Assignee: Aislan Gomide Foina
- Current Assignee: Aislan Gomide Foina
- Current Assignee Address: US CA El Cerrito
- Agency: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2017/052527 2017.09.20
- International Announcement: WO2018/057629A 2018.03.29
- Date entered country: 2020-08-04
- Main IPC: G06Q10/087
- IPC: G06Q10/087 ; B64C39/02 ; B64U101/00 ; G01C5/06 ; G01S13/08 ; G01S15/08 ; G01S17/08 ; G05D1/00 ; G05D1/02 ; G05D1/03 ; G06K7/10 ; H04W4/029

Abstract:
An inventory management system managing a plurality of inventory items stored in a storage area. The inventory management system includes an autonomous vehicle configured to move within the storage area and a computing device communicatively coupled to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle includes a beacon configured to facilitate detection of a current position of the autonomous vehicle based on signal triangulation, a sensor configured to detect information indicative of a number of inventory items at the current position of the autonomous vehicle, and a wireless data link configured to transmit a signal indicative of the number of inventory items. The computing device may detect a position of the autonomous vehicle based on the signal transmitted from the beacon, and update an inventory of the storage area based on the signal indicative of the number of inventory items.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210216948A1 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES PERFORMING INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2021-07-15
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