ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,247, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to YAMAHA HATSUDOKI K.K. (Iwata, Japan).
"Work device" was invented by Shingo Yamashita (Shizuoka, Japan), Naoto Nakagawa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomoyasu Arai (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work device includes: a movable work unit that performs a predetermined process on an object; a cable carrier that includes a first end, a second end, and a folded portion, and houses and holds a cable connected to the work unit; a fixing portion that fixes the first end of the cable carrier to a predetermined position above a movable region of the work unit; a movable section that moves toget...