ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,842, issued on March 18, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Production management system of electronic device components and production management method of electronic device components" was invented by Eijiro Furuta (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In production management systems, management devices includes a management device of a pre-process which adds a hash value of a production condition information received from a preceding process and a hash value calculated from the production condition information of the pre-process to calculate a first hash value and transmit the production condition ...