US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Delivery system, delivery method, non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,497, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Delivery system, delivery method, non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan), Takashi Izumi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Tatsuya Tsubakimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Uori Koike (Saitama, Japan) and Satoshi Komamine (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system includes a storage shelf, a delivery robot capable of moving to the storage shelf and delivering an article to the storage shelf, a detection unit that detects an obstacle present near the storage shelf, and a control unit that controls an operation of t...