ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,312, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Container processing facility" was invented by Masashige Iwata (Hinocho, Japan), Kazunari Kimura (Hinocho, Japan) and Takashi Hirata (Hinocho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container processing facility (100) includes: a loading section (2) that receives a stacked container group (9) from a transport vehicle (60); an unloading section (3) that transfers a stacked container group (9) to the transport vehicle (60); a work station (80); an unstacking device (1A) that performs unstacking processing; a stacking device (1B) that performs stacking processing;...