US Patent Issued to HITACHI on July 14 for "Picking system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,653, issued on July 14, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Picking system" was invented by Toshio Moriya (Tokyo), Nobutaka Kimura (Tokyo) and Fumiko Beniyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A picking system has a plurality of transport modules having a transport means for transporting goods and includes a plurality of transport lines comprising at least one of the transport modules. The transport lines include a first transport line for transporting goods along a transport route, a second transport line for temporarily storing the goods, and a third transport line for transporting shipping containers of the goods along the ...