ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,881, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AMADA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for installing divided upper tool to upper tool holder provided on upper table of press brake, tool changer, and tool stocker" was invented by Masaaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Shiro Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shingo Kamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideto Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yohei Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an installing method for installing divided upper tools to upper tool holders disposed to be spaced at an appropriate interval in a left-right direction in a lower portion of an upper table of a press brake, by usin...