US Patent Issued to Daifuku on July 28 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,088, issued on July 28, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Toshihito Ueda (Hinocho, Japan), Akira Suzuki (Hinocho, Japan), Tomoaki Nishikawa (Hinocho, Japan), Ayaka Kawanami (Hinocho, Japan) and Shota Inden (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An update processing section distributes update data for section control software to a target section control device targeted for update from among a plurality of section control devices. Upon receipt of the update data, the target section control device executes software update to update the section control software by use of...