US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Sept. 8 for "Stacking apparatus and stacking system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,089, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Stacking apparatus and stacking system" was invented by Kouhei Fukuda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Arata Suzuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kodai Murata (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacking apparatus includes a stacking stage, a correction mechanism, a driving mechanism, and a linear-motion mechanism. The stacking stage has a stacking surface, on which objects are to be stacked in layers. The correction mechanism moves the stacking stage in a direction parallel to the stacking surface. The driving mechanism moves the stacking stage i...