ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,645, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Traveling vehicle system and traveling vehicle" was invented by Hiroyuki Yasumoto (Ise, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling vehicle system includes a traveling vehicle including a reflective sensor and an image-capturing device, a storage to store an image including a specific object, a determiner to determine whether an object detected by the sensor is the specific object, based on a captured image captured by the image-capturing device when the object has been detected by the sensor and on the image stored in the storage, and a traveling con...