US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on July 14 for "Storage system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,650, issued on July 14, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Storage system" was invented by Wataru Kitamura (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes an entrance port, a storage rack, an exit port, transporters, and a determining controller. The entrance port is a place at which an item is carried in from the outside. The storage rack is structured to store the item. The exit port is a place at which the item is carried out to the outside. The transporter, by moving along a track, accesses the entrance port, the storage rack, or the exit port. The determining controller is configured ...