ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,764, issued on July 1, was assigned to Shinmaywa Industries Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).
"Electric wire processing apparatus" was invented by Nozomi Shimizu (Takarazuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric wire processing apparatus (1) includes: a clamp (3R) to grip and convey an electric wire (5); an upper tray (21) disposed under a movement path (51t) for a first end (51) of the electric wire (5); a nonconforming item tray (23) disposed under the movement path (51t) and laterally of the upper tray (21); a shared tray (24) disposed toward a second end (52) of the electric wire (5) relative to the upper tray (21) and the nonconfo...