ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,365, issued on May 19, was assigned to DAIFUKU Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transfer system, method for controlling transfer system, and recording medium" was invented by Atsushi Minoo (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kusube (Tokyo), Yuichi Ueda (Shiga, Japan), Masashi Morikawa (Shiga, Japan) and Tomokazu Nakamura (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to determine, without a trial, whether or not an article can be transferred and in order to reset the article in a case where the article cannot be transferred, provided is a transfer system including: a first determining section that determines whether or not a transferring section can ho...