ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,374, issued on April 7, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Traveling vehicle system" was invented by Kazumi Harasaki (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel vehicle system includes a travel controller to search a travel route that leads a travel vehicle to a station included in a transport instruction in accordance with map information and to control a travel of the travel vehicle along the travel route when the transport instruction is issued. The map information includes information on a specified point corresponding to at least one of a branching portion and a confluence portion. In addition to ...