ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,474, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Semes Co. Ltd. (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).
"Article transfer apparatus and method for transferring article" was invented by Won Young Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Keun Woo Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Tae Uk Park (Ulsan, South Korea) and Hyuk Jae Sung (Cheonan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an article transfer apparatus. The article transfer apparatus includes a vehicle that travels along a driving rail installed on a ceiling, a hoist module that picks up an article-to-be-transferred, a vehicle body, on which the hoist module is mounted and which is conne...