ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,116, issued on July 21, was assigned to AIDA ENGINEERING LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Conveyance device" was invented by Keisuke Takeda (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance device includes a fixed base having a large gear, a turning body supported by the fixed base via a bearing, two or more servomotors, a conveyance arm, and two or more speed reducers. The speed reducer includes a housing integrated with the turning body, a planetary carrier rotatably supported inside the housing, an internal gear provided inside the housing, a sun gear connected to an output shaft of the servomotor, a plurality of planetary ge...