ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,378, issued on June 17, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Traveling vehicle system" was invented by Hidetoshi Fujiwara (Ise, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling vehicle system includes a traveling track, a working track, a mover to move a traveling vehicle between a first position on the traveling track and the working track, and a transportation controller configured or programmed to control at least the traveling vehicle and the mover. The transportation controller is configured or programmed to transmit to the traveling vehicle a first command to travel to the first position and transmit to the mo...