ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,490, issued on May 27, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Machine tool system" was invented by Mitsunori Hirose (Inuyama, Japan) and Yasuo Komori (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine tool system includes a machine tool including a processor to process a workpiece with a tool, and a bed on which the processor is mounted, a transport apparatus including two, left and right, legs spaced apart from the bed to transport the workpiece and feed the workpiece to the processor or discharge the workpiece from the processor, and a plate that connects the bed to the legs and is elastically deformable. The ...