ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,384, issued on April 21, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article transport vehicle control system" was invented by Tomoaki Nishikawa (Hinocho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control includes a control device configured to execute a plurality of types of processing including assignment processing of assigning one or more movement tasks for transporting the article, to one of the plurality of transport vehicles. In response to a processing load on the control device exceeding a predetermined reference load, the control system reduces the processing load on the control device by enabling a restriction mode in ...