ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,932, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Traveling rail and article transport facility" was invented by Masashige Iwata (Hinocho, Japan) and Hiroaki Nakamura (Hinocho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail unit includes an upper plate segment extending in a width direction, a lower plate segment extending in the width direction and at a position in a downward direction from the upper plate segment, and an intermediate plate segment extending in a vertical direction and joining an edge of the upper plate segment in a first width direction and an edge of the lower plate segment in a first width dire...