US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Delivery system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,322, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Delivery system" was invented by Takashi Izumi (Tokyo-to, Japan), Tatsuya Tsubakimoto (Tokyo-to, Japan), Uori Koike (Saitama, Japan), Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Satoshi Komamine (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a delivery system or the like adapted to request a person to remove an obstacle in a given area in front of a storage cabinet. A delivery system includes: a storage cabinet; a delivery robot capable of traveling to the storage cabinet and delivering an article; at least one detection unit configured to detect an obsta...