ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,636, issued on April 7, was assigned to KITAMURA MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Takaoka, Japan).
"Machining center" was invented by Akihiro Kitamura (Toyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machining center is provided, which can complete replacement of processed works on stock shelves in a work storage section with unprocessed works within a time period significantly shorter than those in conventional techniques and improve the efficiency of an entire processing process. In the machining center, a cover surrounding the work storage section includes an opening portion where rear surface regions of the stock shelves are exposed, a stock s...