US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Transport system, transport method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,758, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Transport system, transport method, and program" was invented by Shiro Oda (Anjo, Japan), Tetsuya Taira (Nagakute, Japan), Satoshi Toyoshima (Okazaki, Japan), Yuta Watanabe (Toyota, Japan), Takeshi Matsui (Nisshin, Japan), Takayoshi Nasu (Okazaki, Japan), Kei Yoshikawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Ota (Nagakute, Japan), Yutaro Ishida (Toyota, Japan), Yuji Onuma (Nagoya, Japan) and Kyosuke Arai (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system is a transport system for transporting a transported object using a mobile robot that is autonomously move...