ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,045, issued on March 17, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Transport system and storage" was invented by Kinya Masuda (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system includes: a grid-patterned rail that has a plurality of first rails extending in a first direction and a plurality of second rails extending in a second direction different from the first direction and intersecting with the first rails and that forms a plurality of cells with the plurality of first rails and the plurality of second rails; an overhead transport vehicle that travels along the grid-patterned rail, a suspender that is ...