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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
May. 27, 2021
Outrider Technologies, Inc., Brighton, CO (US);
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);
Outrider Technologies, Inc., Brighton, CO (US);
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.