ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,178, issued on March 24, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).
"Production system" was invented by Shigeto Oyama (Kariya, Japan) and Haruna Narita (Higashiura-cho, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production system includes a first production line and a second production line arranged in parallel with each other, and a first feeder exchange device and a second feeder exchange device respectively provided in each production line at an interval with which the first feeder exchange device and the second feeder exchange device can pass by each other. When the production is stopped, the first feeder exchange device and the se...