US Patent Issued to Daio Paper on Feb. 24 for "Picking assistance robot and picking assistance system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,317, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Daio Paper Corp. (Ehime, Japan).

"Picking assistance robot and picking assistance system" was invented by Taro Ikawa (Ehime, Japan), Takuro Shimada (Kagawa, Japan) and Masato Onishi (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is possible to provide a picking assistance robot and a picking assisting system capable of assisting a worker in efficiently picking a product. A picking assistance robot includes a housing for housing a product to which an RFID tag is attached, an RFID reader including an antenna disposed at a position capable of reading of the RFID tag when the product is housed in ...