ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,492, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Automation support device and automation support method" was invented by Mineyoshi Masuda (Tokyo), Koichi Murayama (Tokyo) and Hideki Minato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automation support device includes a processor and a storage unit. In this automation support device, the storage unit stores a man-hour estimation rule that is a rule for estimating man-hours for automation of a work procedure manual related to a procedure of work. Then, the processor calculates man-hours required for automation of the work procedure manual by using the man-hour estimation ru...