ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,617, issued on June 17, was assigned to CADDi Inc. (Tokyo).

"Device, method, and computer-readable medium for managing plurality of pieces of drawing data representing set of components" was invented by Yushiro Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operation of a computer for managing a plurality of pieces of drawing data representing a set of components, includes: determining whether target drawing data included in the plurality of pieces of drawing data is related to existing drawing data that has been already stored; acquiring record information when the record information associated with the existing drawing data...