ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,933, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Screw tightening system, controller, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Shu Biwaki (Kyoto, Japan), Zhiqiang Liu (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiro Murai (Kyoto, Japan) and Yuki Tsuchihashi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A screw tightening system includes an actuator including a driver bit that rotationally drives a screw and a motor coupled with driver bit, and a controller that controls actuator. Controller includes an acquirer that acquires torque values of a torque generated in a motor, a calculator that calculates a standard deviation of the ...