ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,229, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Article storage facility" was invented by Tooru Siraisi (Tokyo), Tooru Arii (Tokyo) and Takehito Ito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unloading priority mode is a mode for causing a transport device to execute a first transfer operation, a second transfer operation, a first travel operation, a third transfer operation, and a second travel operation in this order. The first transfer operation is an operation of transferring a second article to the transport device. The second transfer operation is an operation of transferring a first article to the tra...