US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Dec. 2 for "Manufacturing system design assistance apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,158, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing system design assistance apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Iwatsu (Tokyo) and Kohei Fujita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of pieces of design information created in the respective design processes and dependencies among the plurality of pieces of design information are stored. A piece of design information to be changed by a piece of design information that is input is extracted from the plurality of pieces of design information. The piece of design information is combined with the plurality of pieces of design information. An ...