US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Sorting system, sorting method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,890, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Sorting system, sorting method, and program" was invented by Yutaro Takagi (Edogawa-ku, Japan), Junya Ota (Edogawa-ku, Japan), Takatoshi Morimitsu (Toyota, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan) and Uori Koike (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sorting system, a sorting method, and a program that can reduce the time required for sorting items using a shelf are achieved. A sorting system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a shelf in which a plurality of boxes are contained in a plurality of tiers, transfer means f...