ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,989, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article storage facility" was invented by Wataru Kiyokawa (Tokyo) and Daisuke Katagiri (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device performs selection processing for determining a selected conveyor that is to be the destination of a target article. The selection processing is processing for, if a second conveyor in which an article of the same type as the target article is the most-upstream article and there is no adjacent same-type article group, and a second conveyor in which an articles of the same type as the target article is the most-upstream ar...