ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,805, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Line designing device and line designing method" was invented by Naohiro Hayashi (Tokyo), Takahiro Iwata (Tokyo), Hiroshi Homma (Tokyo) and Daiki Kajita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A line designing device including a calculation unit and a storage unit, in which the storage unit holds facility information indicating a specification of each module, process design information indicating a component for manufacturing a product, work on the component, and a module used for the work, standard module information indicating a type of each of the modules and another mod...