ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,677, issued on March 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Component management device and component management method" was invented by Yoshinori Isobata (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a roll body extractor that extracts roll bodies from reels and store the roll bodies in cases having radio tags, respectively, and a storage warehouse that includes a plurality of storage positions for storing the cases storing the roll bodies. Furthermore, provided are a reading unit that acquires component information, an identification information generator that generat...