US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Sept. 29 for "Production line design apparatus, production line design system, and production line design method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,409, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Production line design apparatus, production line design system, and production line design method" was invented by Hiroyuki Sakata (Tokyo) and Daisuke Tsutsumi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production line design apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores facility configuration information that defines a number configuration including at least one or more main facilities that perform a main work in a production line and at least one or more setup facilities that perform an auxiliary work of the main facility, and arrangement pattern definition information...