ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,076, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Transport system and transport robot" was invented by Atsushi Oshiro (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomonori Manome (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention makes an instruction for causing a transport robot to carry out transport easier for a person to understand. A transport system (1) is such that an address indicating a transport destination or a transport source is represented by a tree structure including a node indicating loading locations and a node indicating equipment to which the loading locations are provided, and when the address of the tran...