US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 1 for "Physical distribution system, physical distribution control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing physical distribution control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,940, issued on April 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Physical distribution system, physical distribution control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing physical distribution control program" was invented by Kenichi Kitahama (Toyota, Japan), Ryo Murakami (Toyota, Japan), Hisashi Iizuka (Susono, Japan) and Mitsunori Hosokawa (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a physical distribution system, a delivery controller is configured to acquire package information; generate a delivery schedule; calculate tentative delivery time of a package estimated based on the delivery schedule; se...