US Patent Issued to TOYO SEIKAN on Feb. 10 for "Production line management system, production line management method, can management system, can, manufacturing method for can" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,450, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYO SEIKAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Production line management system, production line management method, can management system, can, manufacturing method for can" was invented by Takayuki Tochigi (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuhiko Nakayama (Yokohama, Japan) and Shinobu Miura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a production line management system for managing a manufacturing line for containers. The production line management system includes a first reading unit for reading an identification code applied to each of the containers when the container with the identification code indic...