US Patent Issued to Daifuku on March 17 for "Vehicle control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,739, issued on March 17, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Vehicle control system" was invented by Daisuke Ogawa (Hinocho, Japan) and Yuya Hirao (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller in a vehicle control system includes a communication state determiner that determines a communication state between a facility communicator and a vehicle communicator in each vehicle, and a recorder. When the communication state determiner determines that the communication state between the facility communicator and the vehicle communicator in any vehicle has a communication failure, the controller obtains vehicle s...