US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 12 for "Automated conveyance system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,337, issued on May 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automated conveyance system" was invented by Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated conveyance system that enables an autonomous mobile robot having a width larger than a distance between the legs of a load carrier to enter under the load carrier is provided. The automated conveyance system is an automated conveyance system for conveying a load carrier by an autonomous mobile robot entering below the load carrier, in which the load carrier includes a plurality of ...