ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,123, issued on June 2, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Management device and management method, and work device" was invented by Yukihiro Yamashita (Toyohashi, Japan), Fumiya Mizutani (Toyota, Japan) and Taehune Kim (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device is for use in a component mounting system including a component mounting machine having a supply target attachment section and a buffer target attachment section. In a case where a target feeder to be used in a target job to be executed from the next time are pre-served on the component mounting machine, the management device is configured to de...