US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on Aug. 25 for "Transport system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,481, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transport system" was invented by Kazumi Harasaki (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system includes a transport vehicle to travel along a trajectory to transport an article, and a management controller configured or programmed to assign a transport command of the article to the transport vehicle and to include a route selector to select based on the transport command a route on which the transport vehicle travels such that a cost of the route from a departure point to a destination is reduced or minimized, a counter to count a numb...