US Patent Issued to Daifuku on May 19 for "Article transport system with transport vehicle for unmanned aircraft" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,359, issued on May 19, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport system with transport vehicle for unmanned aircraft" was invented by Toyoki Takahashi (Komaki, Japan), Keisuke Takeno (Komaki, Japan), Satoshi Nitta (Komaki, Japan) and Hidemoto Fukushima (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system includes an unmanned aircraft including an article holding section; and a transport vehicle that includes at least one aircraft holding section configured to hold the unmanned aircraft, and that is configured to travel along a predetermined travel path, wherein the at least one aircraft holding se...