ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,069, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Warehouse system" was invented by Hidetoshi Kawai (Anjo, Japan) and Fumitaka Maeda (Chiryu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A warehouse system includes a component container warehouse configured to store multiple component containers that accommodate multiple components, a component supply unit warehouse configured to store multiple component supply units used when supplying the components accommodated in the component container to a component mounter, a component container loader configured to load the component container into the component supply unit, and a ...