ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,706, issued on June 23, was assigned to Max Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"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 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; a remaining wire amount detection unit configured to detect a remaining amount of the wire to be used in the binding machine; and processing circuitry configure...