US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Oct. 27 for "Article sorting facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,722, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article sorting facility" was invented by Kenichi Ukisu (Tokyo), Masaya Miyamoto (Tokyo), Toru Konagaya (Hinocho, Japan), Akira Takeuchi (Hinocho, Japan), Masayuki Uchida (Hinocho, Japan), Shohei Nogami (Hinocho, Japan), Kazuharu Yoshinaga (Hinocho, Japan) and Daiki Takagi (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floor F1 of an article sorting facility 100 includes a transfer area 1 where transfer work is performed to transfer articles G to transport vehicles V. The transfer area 1 includes a transfer passage R1 extending in a Y direction; and a first t...