US 11,889,383 B2
Product pallet and method for establishing the position of a product pallet
Marco Pannicke, Cologne (DE)
Assigned to CHEP TECHNOLOGY PTY LIMITED, Sydney (AU)
Appl. No. 17/266,274
Filed by CHEP Technology Pty Limited, Sydney (AU)
PCT Filed Aug. 8, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/071337
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/030747, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 119 341.6 (DE), filed on Aug. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0306810 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G16Y 20/40 (2020.01); G16Y 10/45 (2020.01)
CPC H04W 4/029 (2018.02) [G16Y 10/45 (2020.01); G16Y 20/40 (2020.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A product pallet comprising:
a product support plate having a planar top surface for receiving products thereon;
a plurality of feet provided on an underside of said product support surface; and
an autonomous device carried by said product support plate and comprising:
a smartphone-seeking module configured to detect presence of smartphones in a vicinity of the product pallet, and
a transmission module coupled to said smartphone-seeking module and configured to transmit data over a data network in response to detecting the presence of smartphones in the vicinity of the product pallet, with the detected smartphones being used to determine a location of the product pallet.