ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,477, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Automated warehouse" was invented by Tadahiro Yoshimoto (Hinocho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover member covers a target region set in a portion of a back face of a storage rack or over an entirety of the back face. Storage regions are respectively formed between pairs of two placement sections adjacent to each other in an up-down direction. The cover member is changeable between a closed state in which the cover member covers the target region and an open state in which the cover member has been moved relative to a frame member to expose the targe...