US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Work type identification apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,178, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Work type identification apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Shota Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work type identification apparatus (2000) acquires, for a target region (12) of a target object (10) on which a wiping work is to be performed, a 5 temperature data sequence (40) indicating a time variation of a temperature of the target region (12). The work type identification apparatus (2000) determines a type of wiping work performed on the target region (12) based on the time variation of the temperature of t...