ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,281, issued on July 29, was assigned to PACRAFT Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Processing system" was invented by Noriyuki Yamane (Yamaguchi-ken, Japan), Koichi Nakagawa (Yamaguchi-ken, Japan) and Kazuki Murata (Yamaguchi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system includes a conveyance system including: a conveyance body unit having a conveyance surface; a movable body moving along the conveyance surface; and a conveyance control unit controlling a magnetism acting between the movable body and the conveyance body unit, wherein the movable body moves along the conveyance surface in a floating state where the movable body is sep...