ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,455, issued on July 22, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Member attachment support system and member attachment support method" was invented by Susumu Sekine (Yokohama, Japan), Hyota Abe (Yokohama, Japan), Yutaka Kano (Yokohama, Japan), Taiichi Mure (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoyuki Yamazaki (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Wada (Tokyo) and Hiroto Akitaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A member attachment support system is for supporting work of attaching a plurality of members to a device. The member attachment support system includes: an identification information storage unit provided for each of the plurality of memb...