ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,553, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Drying device and drying method" was invented by Kazuma Miura (Nagoya, Japan), Kenji Shimosaka (Obu, Japan) and Daisuke Suzuki (Chiryu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying device includes multiple partitioned spaces, and a jetting device configured to jet air to a component holder in each of the multiple spaces."
The patent was filed on Sept. 24, 2019, under Application No. 17/637,325.
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