ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,705, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Transport robot" was invented by Satoshi Toyoshima (Okazaki, Japan), Daiki Fukunaga (Toyota, Japan), Shiro Oda (Anjo, Japan), Nobuyuki Tomatsu (Nagoya, Japan), Keisuke Fukunaga (Chofu, Japan), Zixun Mei (Tokyo), Takeshi Matsui (Nissin, Japan) and Toshiyuki Kawabe (Toyohashi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport robot is configured to transfer a transported article to and from an installed shelf by passing the installed shelf. A shelf portion that holds the transported article is configured to pass the installed shelf by the transport robot trave...