ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,577, issued on July 21, was assigned to WISTRON Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Transportation control system, transportation device, and transportation control method" was invented by Yue-Se Cheng (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Shun-Chi Yeh (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Jiang-Nan Ma (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Fu-Hua Yan (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transportation control system, a transportation device, and a transportation control method related to an automated transportation control method are used to provide automated transportation between platforms which are not interconnected. The transportation cont...