US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Sept. 29 for "Transport facility" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,098, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transport facility" was invented by Shota Ito (Komaki, Japan) and Makoto Kono (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport facility includes a transport vehicle and a section control system. In a case where a following stop point is different from a leading stop point, and a following passage point is different from a leading passage point at the time when the section control system receives a passage permission request on a first passage point or a second passage point from a following transport vehicle to enter a specific section subsequently t...