ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,031, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to FUJI Corp. (Chiryu, Japan).

"Work management system" was invented by Yukinori Nakayama (Hekinan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work management system is applied to a work area in which a predetermined work is executed by a worker and a robot. The work management system includes a control section configured to control the robot such that a specified operation set in advance is included in an operation by the robot executing the predetermined work, an information acquisition section configured to acquire work information indicating a presence or absence of the specified operation in at l...