ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,949, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Work support device, work support system, and analysis program" was invented by Shingo Hayashi (Tokyo), Shoji Yamamoto (Tokyo), Takaaki Ueno (Tokyo) and Masahiko Niioka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work support device according to the invention detects circuit symbols and conducting wires from circuit drawing data that does not have information unique to a circuit part, and by matching the detection result with a result of tracing a conduction path by handwriting by a worker, the circuit part and the conducting wire through which the conduction path passes are ...