ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,896, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Buffalo Machinery Co. Ltd. (Taichung, Taiwan).
"Management system using a bridge crane for loading an object onto a machine tool and unloading an object from the machine tool" was invented by Yi-Lin He (Taichung, Taiwan), Hsun-Fu Chiang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chia-Hui Tang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Paul Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system includes: a plurality of machine tools each including a base plate; a plurality of storage plates; an object holder enabling an object to be placed thereon; a conveying unit including a fetching unit that is configured to secur...