ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,599, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Transport facility" was invented by Kengo Ikedo (Komaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport facility includes at least one transport vehicle, a guide rail, and a control system, and the at least one transport vehicle includes a guide section that is guided by the guide rail. The control system, when controlling the at least one transport vehicle traveling on the first branch route to perform return travel for entering the second branch route after reversing, executes branch return control for (i) controlling the guide drive section to move the g...