ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,105, issued on June 17, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Component mounter" was invented by Kazuya Kotani (Toyota, Japan), Keiichi Ono (Anjo, Japan) and Tomoya Fujimoto (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component mounter includes a camera configured to image the supply region, an image processing section configured to execute image processing on image data acquired by imaging of the camera to recognize an accommodation state of the component for each of the multiple cavities and acquire accommodation information in which the accommodation state of the component is associated with a unique address for each of...