ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,287, issued on April 29, was assigned to HONGFUJIN PRECISION ELECTRONICS (ZHENGZHOU) Co. LTD. (Zhengzhou, China) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Automatic feeding system" was invented by Eddy Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jun Yan (Zhengzhou, China), Chih-Yuan Cheng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Da Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Jun Chen (Shenzhen, China), Er-Wei Chen (Shenzhen, China), Xiao-Ming Lv (Shenzhen, China), Qi Feng (Zhengzhou, China), Shu-Fa Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Zhe-Qi Zhao (Zhengzhou, China), Hsin-Ta Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Han Yang (Shenzhen, China) and Jun-Hui Zhang (Zhengzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & T...