ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,706, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article transport facility" was invented by Yuki Ihira (Komaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility includes a stationary access point being stationary relative to a travel path and connected to a control device to communicate with the control device, and a plurality of mobile access points for wireless communication. Each of the plurality of mobile access points is on a corresponding transport vehicle of a plurality of transport vehicles. Each of the plurality of mobile access points is connected to the stationary access point an...