US Patent Issued to Daifuku on April 21 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,023, issued on April 21, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Yuichi Ueda (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility includes a plurality of transport vehicles. In a combined state in which the plurality of transport vehicles are combined in such a manner as to be adjacent to each other, the plurality of transport vehicles constitute a transport route in which a plurality of transfer sections cooperate to transport articles. While the transport vehicle performs a combining operation with a combination target vehicle that is another transport v...