ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,532, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for managing electronic components" was invented by Kiyoyuki Nakagawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yasuhiro Shimizu (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Koichi Iwamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Nobuto Yamada (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Naoto Ikeda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing electronic components includes a manufacturer-side process including preparing bulk cases provided with RFID tags storing unique IDs and including electronic components stored therein, storing manufacturer-side information in association with the unique IDs in a...