US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on Aug. 25 for "Traveling vehicle and traveling vehicle system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,352, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Traveling vehicle and traveling vehicle system" was invented by Yuji Shimizu (Ise, Japan) and Seiji Yamagami (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling vehicle is operable to travel along a predetermined travel path, and includes an indicator with switchable lighting states, an imager to capture an image of a preceding traveling vehicle located in front of a subject traveling vehicle to include the indicator provided to the preceding traveling vehicle in the captured image, and a controller to control traveling of the subject traveling vehicl...