ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,057, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article transport facility" was invented by Katsuaki Inaba (Hinocho, Japan) and Tomonori Sumida (Hinocho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an article transportation facility including a plurality of article transportation vehicles and an operation terminal for controlling the article transportation vehicles, in which each of the article transportation vehicles includes a vehicle transmission/reception section for transmitting and receiving signals for communicating with the operation terminal. The operation terminal includes an operation section o...