ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,613, issued on May 12, was assigned to SEMES Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Transport vehicle cleaning device and article transport equipment including the same" was invented by Sung Ho Lee (Asan-si, South Korea), Ok Kyung Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and No Jae Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport vehicle cleaning device that cleans a transport vehicle incudes a housing including a cleaning space accommodating the transport vehicle for cleaning, a plurality of fans disposed at an upper part of the housing and generating a downward airflow in the cleaning space, a cleaning gas injector disposed at ...