ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,627, issued on March 25, was assigned to NAKANISHI METAL WORKS Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Unmanned forklift" was invented by Keisuke Onoda (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image obtaining section obtains a taken image from an imaging device. A pallet type identification section has a learning model for combinations of images of a plurality of types of pallets and types of the pallets, and identifies a type of a target pallet by inputting, to the learning model, the taken image of the target pallet, which is obtained by the image obtaining section. A pallet position/shape obtaining section obtains position/shape data of...