US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 4 for "Systems, devices, and methods for allocation of workpiece transfers in multi-machine, multi-process production systems" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,381, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Systems, devices, and methods for allocation of workpiece transfers in multi-machine, multi-process production systems" was invented by Ahmed M. Hussein (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some devices, systems, and methods receive a production-system description that describes respective operations that can be performed on workpieces by each of a plurality of machines and that describes capabilities of one or more robots to transfer the workpieces to and from each of the plurality of machines; receive a process description that describes at least one sequence of pr...