ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,874, issued on April 29, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Component mounter" was invented by Satoshi Iwashima (Chiryu, Japan) and Koji Kawaguchi (Kasugai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The component mounter includes a mounting control section that controls a mounting operation for a component by the mounting head based on a control program to execute a mounting process. In a recovery process of attempting to mount a component anew with a mounting position related to the mounting operation as a target position in a case where an error has occurred in the mounting operation, the mounting control section executes the m...