ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,325, issued on May 12, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Manufacturing system, manufacturing method, control system, and control method" was invented by Junichi Takahashi (Osaka, Japan), Nobuyuki Kakishima (Yamanashi, Japan), Yasuyuki Ishitani (Yamanashi, Japan), Ryosuke Murai (Osaka, Japan) and Hikari Kurihara (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing system according to the present disclosure includes one or more manufacturing apparatuses, a carrier, and a control system. Each of the one or more manufacturing apparatuses performs predetermined work on a board. The...