ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,107, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Traveling vehicle system" was invented by Keiichiro Suriki (Ise, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling vehicle system includes a plurality of traveling vehicles to travel in a plurality of sections, a storage, and a controller. When each of the traveling vehicles has received a signal transmitted from the controller, each traveling vehicle receives the signal as valid information only when the signal contains information indicating the vehicle itself as a destination. After each of the traveling vehicles has switched a communication method bas...