ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,621, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ASTER Co. LTD. (Yokote, Japan).

"Coil manufacturing apparatus, and coil manufacturing method" was invented by Takenobu Hongo (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coil manufacturing apparatus includes: a bending device configured to bend each of a plurality of flat conductors; and a welding device configured to weld the plurality of flat conductors. The bending device is a unit configured to bend each of the flat conductors before being supplied to the welding device. The welding device includes a first holding portion and a second holding portion disposed facing each other, an...