ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,578, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Feeder management system" was invented by Yoshiharu Tanizawa (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeder management system includes a storage section configured to store component information including a type of a component loaded in a bulk feeder and cleaning information providing an execution history of cleaning including, as its cleaning target, at least a conveyance path along which the component is conveyed in the bulk feeder in association with the bulk feeder, and a determination section configured to determine whether the cleaning is executed before...