ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,396, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work management device, work management method, and work-in-progress estimation model" was invented by Kazuma Harada (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A task in operation is accurately inferred. A task management device (3) includes: a data generating section (336) that generates time series data of coordinates; a linear data extracting section (337) that extracts linear data from the time series data of the coordinates; and a task inferring section (339) that infers, on the basis of the linear data and a target object included in a captured image, a t...