ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,185, issued on May 27, was assigned to SEMES Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).
"Tower lift, tower lift driving method, and machine readable medium" was invented by Na Hyun Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea), Sang-Oh Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Myungjin Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Heejae Byun (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tower lift includes a rail module extending in a vertical direction, a plurality of carriage modules that are movable along the rail module, each carriage module having a carriage that carries an object, and an interference avoidance module that avoids travel interference between the carriag...