ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,633, issued on March 17, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Component mounting program" was invented by Masahiro Kitagawa (Takahama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component mounting program for mounting a component on a board, the component mounting program being configured to identify whether a component supplied from a tape feeder on the component mounting program is a component supplied from a sequential taped component or a component supplied from a taped component other than the sequential taped component."

The patent was filed on Feb. 13, 2020, under Application No. 17/760,022.

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