US Patent Issued to Hitachi on April 21 for "Logistics network management device, logistics network management system, and logistics network management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,673, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Logistics network management device, logistics network management system, and logistics network management method" was invented by Kohei Miyata (Tokyo), Satoshi Nagahara (Tokyo) and Norisuke Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This logistics network management device 1100: calculates, for each vehicle 1300, based on the expected arrival time at a delivery destination location at which the vehicle will arrive after an expected arrival at a delivery origin location and also based on information about vacant period of each shared unit 1210 at the delivery destinati...