US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on Sept. 29 for "Conveyance system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,293, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Conveyance system" was invented by Kotaro Shibata (Ise, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance system includes a transport vehicle configured to transport an article to or from a passive device and including a communication unit configured to communicate wirelessly with the passive device. The transport vehicle includes: a counter configured to generate a counter value corresponding to an elapsed time from a timing when reception has become impossible due to a communication failure during wireless communication with the passive device; and an ...