ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,859, issued on July 22, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan) and I PEACE INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Cell production system" was invented by Kazunori Ban (Yamanashi, Japan), Satoshi Kinoshita (Yamanashi, Japan), Koji Tanabe (Kyoto, Japan), Ryoji Hiraide (Kyoto, Japan) and Atsushi Nakao (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This cell production system is provided with: a robot that assists cell production; and a plurality of closed system cell production devices which are affected by the robot in a one-to-many manner, wherein the closed system cell production devices are each provided with a double-sided structure of a...