ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,501, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Load transport system and transporter" was invented by Kohei Kikuchi (Osaka, Japan), Yumiko Kato (Osaka, Japan), Yasuhisa Inada (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuya Hisada (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load transport system includes multiple transporters transporting a load. The transporters include a first transporter and a second transporter. The second transporter measures a size of the first transporter and outputs size information on the size of the first transporter to outside. The first transporter acquires the s...