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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2022
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth Yesh, Dearborn, MI (US);

Anthony Mario D'Amato, Canton, MI (US);

Shankar Narayan Mohan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Mario Anthony Santillo, Canton, MI (US);

Gregory P. Linkowski, Dearborn, MI (US);

Meghna Menon, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66F 9/06 (2006.01); B25J 5/00 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01); B66F 9/075 (2006.01); B66F 9/12 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 30/13 (2020.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B66F 9/063 (2013.01); B25J 5/00 (2013.01); B25J 9/1664 (2013.01); B25J 15/0014 (2013.01); B66F 9/0755 (2013.01); B66F 9/12 (2013.01); G05B 19/41895 (2013.01); G05D 1/0291 (2013.01); G05D 1/0297 (2013.01); G06F 30/13 (2020.01); G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2004 (2013.01); H02J 7/0042 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for reconfiguring a factory having equipment at different workstations throughout the factory and a plurality of sensors disposed throughout the factory includes a factory configuration module configured to store a plurality of predetermined factory configurations and a plurality of mobile transporters configured to engage and transport the equipment to the different workstations throughout the factory based on the predetermined factory configurations and dynamic inputs, where the dynamic inputs include a status of the equipment, a status of the plurality of mobile transporters, sensor data output by the plurality of sensors, or a combination thereof.


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