US Patent Issued to DMG MORI on Sept. 15 for "Workpiece supply system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,674, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DMG MORI Co. LTD. (Nara, Japan).

"Workpiece supply system" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (Nara, Japan), Tomoaki Yoda (Nara, Japan), Koji Tanaka (Nara, Japan) and Hiromitsu Nakaoka (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece supply system for supplying a workpiece to a target device includes: a robot mount carriage including a manually-moved carriage having a plurality of wheels, a robot mounted on the carriage, and a controller controlling the robot; and a manually-moved workpiece storage carriage having a plurality of wheels and including a workpiece storage storing the workpiec...