US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on Sept. 22 for "Transportation system and transportation control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,110, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transportation system and transportation control method" was invented by Wataru Kitamura (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation system includes a plurality of transport vehicles and a controller configured or programmed to assign a transportation command to the transport vehicles and to execute specific assignment processing to preferentially assign the transportation command having a relatively short transportation time or transportation distance to the transport vehicles."

The patent was filed on Feb. 28, 2023, under Applicati...