ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,565, issued on April 14, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Ceiling depository system" was invented by Yasuhisa Ito (Ise, Japan) and Yu Kusama (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ceiling storage system includes an overhead transport vehicle and a storage rack. The overhead transport vehicle has a traveling section traveling on rails arranged in a grid pattern, and a body section suspended from the traveling section and configured to hold an article on an underside of the rails. The storage rack has a plurality of suspension members extending in an up-down direction, and having a middle portion provid...