US Patent Issued to Preferred Robotics on Sept. 30 for "Conveyance object, conveyance object-coupling unit, and conveyance system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,889, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Preferred Robotics Inc. (Tokyo).

"Conveyance object, conveyance object-coupling unit, and conveyance system" was invented by Yoshito Ito (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamana (Tokyo) and Toru Isobe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance object is configured to be coupled to an autonomous vehicle and conveyed by the autonomous vehicle to move. The conveyance object includes a bottom plate; a coupling provided on a lower surface of the bottom plate and configured to be coupled to the autonomous vehicle; a pair of guide frames provided on the lower surface and configured to guide the autonomous v...