Patent 7980808 was granted and assigned to Jervis B. Webb Company on July, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and system for automatically loading and unloading a transport is disclosed. A guidance system follows a travel path to a position near the transport and then a sensor profiles a transport so that a transport path is determined for an AGV to follow into the transport to place a load and for exiting the transport upon placement of the load.