US Patent Issued to Daifuku on April 21 for "Operation system of unmanned aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,327, issued on April 21, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Operation system of unmanned aircraft" was invented by Toyoki Takahashi (Komaki, Japan), Keisuke Takeno (Komaki, Japan), Satoshi Nitta (Komaki, Japan) and Hidemoto Fukushima (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation system includes: a connecting cable; a winder configured to cause a tensile force to act on the connecting cable; a delivered amount detecting section configured to detect the delivered amount of the connecting cable; a direction detecting section configured to detect a direction of a force acting on a to-be-detected part of the c...