US Patent Issued to Daifuku on June 10 for "Article transport facility" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,595, issued on June 10, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Article transport facility" was invented by Shigetaka Suzuki (Hinocho, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a switch from a first state in which a transport vehicle is connected to a first access point in a first access point group to a second state in which the transport vehicle is connected to a second access point in a second access point group, or a switch from the second state to the first state, an upper-level controller executes network segment switching processing including restarting a communication controller and a protocol stack, while maintai...