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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:
Jul. 09, 2024

Filed:

May. 27, 2021
Applicant:

Outrider Technologies, Inc., Brighton, CO (US);

Inventors:

Andrew F. Smith, Bend, OR (US);

Joseph A. Welsh, Golden, CO (US);

William N. Klarquist, Littleton, CO (US);

Peter James, Denver, CO (US);

Geoffrey W. Johnson, Golden, CO (US);

Kayla M. Holcomb, Denver, CO (US);

Lawrence S. Klein, Bend, OR (US);

Jason L. Williams, Bloomingdale, IL (US);

Floyd C. Henning, Arvada, CO (US);

Jeremy M. Nett, Littleton, CO (US);

Assignee:

Outrider Technologies, Inc., Brighton, CO (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); H04W 4/44 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/001 (2020.02); H04W 4/44 (2018.02); B60W 2300/12 (2013.01); B60W 2300/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

This provides a system and method for handling the interchange of trailers between an over the road (OTR) truck and an autonomous vehicle (AV) yard truck in a facility yard includes an interchange zone (IZ) that is bounded by a predetermined boundary structure, having an OTR entry gate and an OTR exit gate on a first side and an AV entry gate and an AV exit gate on a second side. The system and method further includes a management process that selectively opens and closes each of the OTR entry gate, the OTR exit gate, the AV entry gate and the AV exit gate according to a predetermined set of rules.


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