US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Nov. 3 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,555, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Keisuke Takeno (Komaki, Japan), Makoto Kono (Komaki, Japan) and Kazuhiro Iwamitsu (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility includes a control system that issues a transport command specifying a transport origin and a transport destination of an article to a transport vehicle. The control system is configured to execute predicted transport time derivation processing for deriving a predicted transport time for each of a plurality of candidate paths, and path selection processing for sele...