ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,708, issued on March 17, was assigned to SEMES Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Device and method of setting communication channel of OHT, and computer program for the method" was invented by Dasom Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Taeuk Park (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Seungju Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a device and method of setting a communication channel of an overhead hoist transfer (OHT), and a computer program stored in a recording medium to execute the method. The method of setting a communication channel of an OHT includes checking, by a master parallel input/output (PIO) pro...