ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,704, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Conveyance robot" was invented by Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan), Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan), Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo) and Yutaro Takagi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a conveyance system, an object is conveyed by use of a conveyance robot. The conveyance robot includes: an arm including a shaft portion extensible and retractable in an axial direction of the shaft portion, and a protruding portion extending from the shaft portion in a direction different from the axial direction so as to be engaged with a groove formed on the object; a drive ...