ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,692, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION. (Tokyo).

"Work support device and work support method" was invented by Toshiyuki Hatta (Tokyo) and Haruhisa Okuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work support device supports work including a series of operations performed by a working entity and includes: a sensor data input device receiving a sensor data string in which sensor data obtained by measuring work of the working entity is arranged in order of acquisition; a class data calculator calculating a class data string indicating sections obtained by dividing the sensor data string by comparing the s...