ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,382, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Traveling vehicle system" was invented by Yuya Eguchi (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller monitors the number of traveling vehicles scheduled to enter a sectioned area in addition to the number of existing vehicles, determines whether the traveling vehicles, scheduled to enter the sectioned area when the total of the number of existing vehicles and the number of vehicles scheduled to enter the sectioned area is acquired, can enter the sectioned area based on the total number of vehicles, determines whether a route including the sectione...