US Patent Issued to HITACHI on June 24 for "Production line design apparatus, production line design system, and production line design method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,647, issued on June 24, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Production line design apparatus, production line design system, and production line design method" was invented by Hiroyuki Sakata (Tokyo), Daisuke Tsutsumi (Tokyo) and Takahiro Nakano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The production line design apparatus includes a memory unit configured to store resource configuration information defining production resources constituting a production line to be designed, resource arrangement constraint information defining an arrangement constraint on the production resources, a production condition to be satisfied by the producti...