ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,662, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Automated warehouse" was invented by Shinjiro Kuroda (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reducing the time necessary for transferring a package from a shelf to a cart, when unloading an package, a conveyance controller of a moving cart performs control including: measuring width of the unloading package using first or second package detection sensors disposed on a front side of the moving cart in traveling direction when performing an unloading travel to a position corresponding to a placed position of the unloading package on a shelf; moving a ...