ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,819, issued on March 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Transport system with protruding portions" was invented by Yuta Itozawa (Nagoya, Japan), Kunihiro Iwamoto (Nagakute, Japan), Hirotaka Komura (Tokyo) and Yutaro Takagi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system is a transport system in which an autonomous mobile robot transports an object. The autonomous mobile robot includes a mounting portion on which the object is mounted. The mounting portion includes a guide that engages with the object and regulates a moving direction of the object on a surface of the mounting portion to a predetermined...