ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,041, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Conveyance system and conveying method" was invented by Thinh Nguyenquang (Sakai, Japan), Hiroshi Yamauchi (Sakai, Japan), Akihiro Yamakawa (Sakai, Japan), Masahiro Sakakibara (Sakai, Japan) and Takashi Iwamoto (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance system according to this disclosure includes a movement request acceptor which accepts a movement request to an automatic conveying device; and a section travel-route setter which sets a section travel route with a predetermined length constituting a part of a travel route from a current position of a...