ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,223, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article transport facility" was invented by Toyoki Takahashi (Komaki, Japan), Hidemoto Fukushima (Komaki, Japan), Keisuke Takeno (Komaki, Japan) and Satoshi Nitta (Komaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article transport facility of the present invention includes: a transport vehicle that travels along a predetermined travel route and transports articles; an unmanned aerial vehicle that flies along a route and transports articles; a transfer section provided in correspondence with a processing device that processes articles, and to and from which artic...