Ascend Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Mizuki Kusaka; hereinafter referred to as "the Company"), which aims for the sustainable evolution of logistics that supports society by supporting everything from the logistics site to management and strategy, is pleased to announce that it has obtained a patent for its dispatch table generation technology that integrates driver labor and attendance information (including health checkup information) and vehicle operation and inspection information (Patent Number: Patent No. 7842394, Date Obtained: April 8, 2026). The Company will continue to actively protect the intellectual property related to its developed technologies to strengthen the foundation for providing stable services in the long term. Background of Patent Technology Development The "dispatch scheduling" that the patented technology focuses on is the core operation for transportation companies, where drivers, vehicles, and routes are optimally assigned to orders received from shippers, and its quality directly impacts revenue. How to efficiently operate a single vehicle, how to assign work to a single driver without overworking them – all of these are reflected in sales, costs, and profit margins. However, dispatch scheduling is not a simple assignment task; it is a highly complex decision-making process that requires simultaneously considering diverse factors such as the driver's physical condition and work status on a given day, the vehicle's maintenance status and special equipment availability, delivery time specifications and loading conditions for each shipper, and the type of cargo and temperature control requirements. In recent years, legal restrictions have also become increasingly stringent, and even experienced dispatchers require considerable time, skill, and experience to create a day's schedule. Despite being a task of such high difficulty and importance, traditional dispatch scheduling systems required dispatchers to manuall