ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,357, issued on March 24, was assigned to Taikisha Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Management apparatus, management method and coating processing facility" was invented by Yoshikazu Hayashi (Sagamihara, Japan) and Hidehisa Yoshioka (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management apparatus manages driving of a plurality of automated guided vehicles that convey a conveyance target object in a production facility. The apparatus acquires remaining amount information of a battery provided in a selected vehicle selected from the plurality of automated guided vehicles, acquires a conveyance condition of a conveyance target object, the conveya...