ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,077, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Simulation device and simulation method" was invented by Kohei Ishikawa (Hekinan, Japan) and Takamitsu Yano (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The simulation device includes a simulation section and a calculation section. A simulation section is configured to simulate an operating status of a board work machine configured to perform predetermined board work on a board and produce a board product, and an operating status of an article moving device configured to supply an article needed for production of the board product to the board work machine based on a p...