ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,313, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rapyuta Robotics Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Method for assembling rack and rack" was invented by Gajamohan Mohanarajah (Tokyo), Arudchelvan Krishnamoorthy (Tokyo) and Kousuke Yunoki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack includes a plurality of floors each of which stores a plurality of bins for containing items, and allows a transportation robot to run along a surface thereof; and a plurality of support columns supporting the floors. Each of the floors includes a plurality of floor modules making up part of each of the floors, and each of the floor modules is detachably supported by the support ...