ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,264, issued on July 29, was assigned to MUJIN INC. (Tokyo).
"Storage system, base, control device, program, and transport robot" was invented by Satoshi Tendo (Tokyo) and Isamu Arase (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The storage system includes a base that supports a container for accommodating articles and a transport robot for transporting the container. The transport robot has a load unit that can load the container and a lift unit for moving the load unit in the vertical direction. The transport robot has a switch unit for switching between a state in which the base restricts the vertical movement of the container and a state...