ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,467, issued on July 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY (Kanazawa-city, Japan).

"Track generation device and fluid application system" was invented by Kazuki Takagi (Kariya-city, Japan), Tomoaki Ozaki (Kariya-city, Japan), Tokuo Tsuji (Kanazawa, Japan) and Takayuki Yamabe (Kanazawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A track generation device generates a track of a fluid discharge unit that discharges a fluid for applying the fluid to a surface of an object along a target application track. The track generation device includes a storage unit and a track genera...