ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,512, issued on April 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Board management system" was invented by Toru Takahashi (Tokyo), Kengo Makino (Tokyo) and Rui Ishiyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board management system includes an extraction means and a generation means. The extraction means extracts a feature amount that depends on position deviation, for each of a plurality of specific components determined in advance based on a degree of variation in the component mounting position, among a plurality of components in a board image in which a board is captured. The generation means generates individual identification info...