ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,253, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Alignment system, alignment method, and recording medium" was invented by Yuji Asano (Tokyo), Weihau Lee (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Sugiyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment system includes an image processor to detect an identification target included in a workpiece from a captured image of the workpiece, and an operation controller to control a driver to move the workpiece based on actual coordinates of the identification target detected by the image processor. The image processor determines within the captured image a search range partially cove...