ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,494, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Manufacturing facility and method" was invented by Kei Kishida (Nisshin, Japan), Takehiro Yamada (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroaki Yoshitomi (Toyota, Japan), Kazuhiko Terai (Nagoya, Japan), Koichiro Hayashi (Anjo, Japan), Tsuyoshi Okada (Nagoya, Japan) and Shotaro Suzuki (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-story manufacturing facility includes a movement mechanism configured to move, to a second story above a first story, a main body of an aircraft assembled on the first story, and after one or more components have been attached to the main bod...