US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on Jan. 27 for "Traveling vehicle system and traveling vehicle control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,296, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Traveling vehicle system and traveling vehicle control method" was invented by Atsushi Matsumoto (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling vehicle system includes a traveling path including a branching portion, a traveling vehicle to travel on the traveling path, and a controller. A specific area through which the traveling vehicle is allowed to pass on one of the traveling paths from an upstream side to a downstream side of the branching portion is in a portion within a blocking area including the branching portion. The controller is conf...