ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,666, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work system and feeder carriage transfer method" was invented by Tetsushi Ohori (Tokyo), Takashi Uchino (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hiroki Yamamoto (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work system includes a mounting system which mounts a component on a board and an unmanned conveyance system having an unmanned conveyance vehicle. The unmanned conveyance system includes a first notifier which notifies the mounting system of an arrival notification indicating that the unmanned conveyance vehicle transfers the feeder carria...