ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,014, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Transport system" was invented by Daiki Fukunaga (Toyota, Japan), Shiro Oda (Anjo, Japan) and Takeshi Matsui (Nisshin, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system according to the present disclosure includes a mobile robot that moves with a wagon mounted thereon, the wagon having a plurality of convex portions that protrude downward. The mobile robot includes a platform that has a mounting surface on which the wagon is placed and that enters under the wagon, a raising and lowering mechanism that raises and lowers the platform to deliver the wa...