ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,674, issued on March 24, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Overhead storage system" was invented by Yasuhisa Ito (Ise, Japan) and Yu Kusama (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overhead storage system includes an overhead transport vehicle including a traveling unit configured to travel on a rail arranged in a grid pattern and a body section suspended from the traveling unit and configured to hold an article below the rail; a storage rack disposed below the rail; and a control unit configured to control operation of the overhead transport vehicle. The body section includes a transfer device capable ...