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US 12,662,219 B2Granted
Asymmetric cargo body of water navigation system and method
AssigneeComboyo Asymmetric Logistc Solutions Servicos E Participacoes Ltda.
InventorMarco Zanini
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Abstract
An autonomous cargo transporting system transports the cargo on a body of water using the natural current of the body of water to deliver cargo to a downstream port. The cargo system is asymmetric since cargo is delivered downstream using the current but the cargo system is disassembled (drastically reducing the weight) for a multimodal return trip back up the body of water.
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An asymmetric cargo transporting system on a navigable waterway, comprising:
- a plurality of carriers connected to each other and each carrier floats on the navigable waterway and is capable of carrying cargo, wherein the plurality of carriers navigate downstream on the navigable waterway using a current of the navigable waterway;
- at least one carrier having a navigation system that has a set of navigation sensors that each gather information about the navigable waterway, a processor, a memory and a plurality of instructions that are executed by the processor so that the processor is configured to perform navigation, using artificial intelligence, of the plurality of carriers in response to the gathered information about the navigable waterway;
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- wherein the cargo is delivered in one direction downstream and the plurality of carriers are disassembled and returned upstream.
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An asymmetric cargo transporting method, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of carriers connected to each other wherein each of the plurality of carriers floats and is capable of carrying a cargo downstream using a current of a navigable waterway;
- loading cargo into each carrier of the plurality of carriers at a source of cargo on the navigable waterway;
- floating downstream, by the plurality of carriers, on the current of the navigable waterway;
- autonomously navigating the navigable waterway by adjusting a position of the plurality of carriers in the navigable waterway;
- unloading the cargo from the plurality of carriers at a destination;
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- disassembling each carrier at the destination and returning the plurality of carriers to the source of the cargo.
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