US Patent Issued to Daifuku on Dec. 9 for "Conveyance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,079, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Conveyance device" was invented by Yosuke Fujiwara (Komaki, Japan), Kengo Ikedo (Komaki, Japan), Keita Yamada (Komaki, Japan), Tsubasa Yajima (Komaki, Japan), Yuta Mani (Komaki, Japan), Hiroyoshi Toba (Komaki, Japan), Keisuke Shiroishi (Gamo-gun, Japan), Kenshin Hashiguchi (Gamo-gun, Japan), Masashi Kakuma (Gamo-gun, Japan), Junichi Sakamoto (Gamo-gun, Japan), Kazuya Namazue (Gamo-gun, Japan), Naoya Toyoshima (Gamo-gun, Japan), Kazuhiro Hayami (Gamo-gun, Japan) and Kenji Tamura (Gamo-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A size of a conveyance device is reduc...