ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,315, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control method, storage medium and information processing device" was invented by Takashi Iwasa (Saitama, Japan), Takahito Fujita (Saitama, Japan), Yuichi Futamura (Saitama, Japan), Takao Sato (Saitama, Japan) and Shinya Agatsuma (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a control method of a stocking apparatus, the stocking apparatus includes a plurality of housings formed separately and independently. Each of the plurality of housings includes a plurality of stockers, each of which stocks an item. The control method comprises: acquiring a demand number w...