ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,019, issued on May 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Fastening apparatus and fastening method" was invented by Takeshi Arimitsu (Tokyo) and Yasutaka Ishizuka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening apparatus assembles an assembly component to an assembled component by fastening a fastening member. The fastening apparatus includes: an imaging device that captures, in a state where the assembly component having a first fastening hole is mounted on an upper portion of the assembled component having a second fastening hole, an image of a region including at least the first fastening hole; and a control device t...