US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Nov. 3 for "Automated warehouse" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,547, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Automated warehouse" was invented by Wataru Kiyokawa (Tokyo), Makoto Sakashita (Tokyo) and Shimon Katsura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated warehouse includes a storage rack, at least one loading section where loading processing of loading a loading target article is performable, a transport apparatus, and a control unit. Each article includes a wireless tag in which identification information unique the article is recorded. The loading section includes a wireless tag reader configured to read the wireless tag. In the loading processing, the cont...