ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,117, issued on March 24, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Workpiece processing apparatus" was invented by Shuhei Noguchi (Toyota, Japan), Toshitaka Fukunaga (Toyota, Japan) and Yosuke Futamura (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A workpiece processing apparatus includes two workpiece conveyance robots capable of traveling on the same traveling table and capable of carrying a workpiece into and out of a processing section, and a control device for performing movement control of the workpiece conveyance robot. The two workpiece conveyance robots include a first robot and a second robot. The control device include...