ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,324, issued on June 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method and storage medium" was invented by Masatsugu Ogawa (Tokyo), Hisaya Wakayame (Tokyo), Takehiro Itou (Tokyo), Mineto Satoh (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Oyama (Tokyo) and Nobuharu Kami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device 1C mainly includes an operation sequence generation means 16C and a synchronization management means 17C. The operation sequence generation means 16C is configured to generate, based on an operation prediction result R2a of another working body which performs cooperative work with a robot which executes a task, an operati...