ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,309, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Component mounting system" was invented by Mitsuru Sanji (Toyota, Japan) and Kohei Ishikawa (Hekinan, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component mounting system includes an execution procedure determination section for determining an execution procedure of multiple mounting jobs, and a job switching section for switching the mounting jobs. The job switching section holds, in the attachment target section, a feeder accommodating a component common to a component used in the subsequent mounting job among components used in the previous mounting job when the prev...