US Patent Issued to Semes on July 7 for "Ceiling stocker" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,631, issued on July 7, was assigned to Semes Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Ceiling stocker" was invented by Jin-Ho Song (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive concept provides a ceiling stocker. The ceiling stocker includes a shelf assembly, at which shelves on which an article is placed are positioned along a first direction on a same plane, is placed in multiple layers; and a transfer module provided at a top part of the shelf assembly and which loads and unloads the article on the shelf, and wherein the transfer module includes: a vehicle moving along a driving rail installed on a ceiling; and ...