US Patent Issued to Daifuku on July 14 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,666, issued on July 14, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Yoshitaka Tanaka (Hinocho, Japan), Daisuke Ogawa (Hinocho, Japan), Kenshin Hashiguchi (Hinocho, Japan), Akira Suzuki (Hinocho, Japan), Ayaka Kawanami (Hinocho, Japan), Toshihito Ueda (Hinocho, Japan) and Shota Inden (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility includes transport vehicles, a travel route which the travel vehicles travel, and a region control device. The travel route includes branching and merging region that includes a branching point and a merging point. If a transport ...