ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,391, issued on April 14, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Conveyance system" was invented by Hiroyuki Yasumoto (Ise, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance system includes carriers capable of traveling along a rail; and a controller configured or programmed to control the carriers. The conveyance system searches for a traveling route allowing at least one of the carriers to travel along the rail to a target point to cause the at least one of the carriers to travel along the traveling route, and re-searches for the traveling route in a case in which the at least one of the carriers passes through an u...