ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,669, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transport system, control apparatus, transport method, and program" was invented by Ryusuke Tsushima (Tokyo), Junichiro Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yoshida (Tokyo), Shinya Yasuda (Tokyo) and Taichi Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a transport system that facilitates input of information related to movements of articles, the transport system includes a transport robot, a control apparatus, and a terminal. The transport robot transports an article. The control apparatus controls the transport robot. The terminal inputs information related to the ...