ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,826, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Binding device, binding system, method for controlling binding device, 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 device communicable with an information processing device, the 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. The binding machine incl...