US Patent Issued to Murata Machinery on March 25 for "Transport system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,220, issued on March 25, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transport system" was invented by Tatsuro Suzuki (Inuyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system includes a vehicle, a dispenser, a body controller, a vehicle controller, and a restart command generator. When the transport system is stopped due to a problem and then the restart command generator commands a restart of the transport system, the body controller transmits check information to the vehicle controller. The vehicle controller performs a consistency process based on check information when the transport system is normal and check...