ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,600, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Releasing/affixing device and releasing/affixing system" was invented by Takeshi Nishimoto (Fuso-cho, Japan) and Kazuaki Mori (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A releasing/affixing device is a releasing/affixing device configured to move a seal from a sheet to which one or more seals are affixed, the device includes a base section, a pickup section disposed in the base section and configured to pick up a part of the seal, a gripping section disposed in the base section to be movable in a direction approaching and separating from the pickup section, configu...