ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,471, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Binding system, method for binding, and computer readable storage medium storing program" was invented by Shigeki Shindou (Tokyo), Kenichi Arai (Tokyo) and Yosei Nodaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A binding system including: a binding device including a binding machine that binds reinforcing bars with a wire, and a transfer robot that moves the binding machine to a binding position by a relative movement between the binding machine and the reinforcing bars; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire binding related information related to an operation...