US Patent Issued to Hitachi on July 15 for "Production line analyzer and visualizer for line performance improvement" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,014, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Production line analyzer and visualizer for line performance improvement" was invented by Wei Yuan (Novi, Mich.), Yi-Chu Chang (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Lili Zheng (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example implementations described herein, there are systems and methods enabling manufacturers to become more efficient by providing a digital tool to track, visualize, quantify, and notify production bottlenecks for quick actions. Some implementations include an apparatus including a processor configured to analyze time-stamp data collected associated with a p...