ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,163, issued on June 17, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Data-saving system" was invented by Satoshi Sugiura (Tokoname, Japan) and Hideya Kuroda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data-saving system includes a data-saving section to acquire and save multiple pieces of data generated when a board working machine performs a board work, a standard storage section that is a candidate for a save destination for saving the data, an additional storage section that is capable of being added to the system and removed from the system, the additional storage section being a candidate for the save destination for saving ...