ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,618, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cylindrical material storing device and method thereof" was invented by Seung Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Hoon Won (Seoul, South Korea), In Sup Um (Seoul, South Korea) and Won Yong Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for storing cylindrical material according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a rack shelf including one or more racks in which a circular axis is stored, a rack master including a first rack master fork configured to collect a first circular axis in which an article stored in a target...