US Patent Issued to HIRATA on Nov. 3 for "Storage rack supply system, shipment system, and storage rack handling device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,544, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HIRATA Corp. (Kumamoto, Japan).

"Storage rack supply system, shipment system, and storage rack handling device" was invented by Atsuhiko Iijima (Kumamoto, Japan) and Shuhei Morita (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage rack supply system used for supplying a storage rack that includes a base portion and a partition portion that is foldable and that is capable of being switched between a storage disabled state in which the partition portion is folded with respect to the base portion and a storage enabled state in which the partition portion is raised with respect to the base por...