ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,755, issued on April 14, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Characteristic calculation device, characteristic calculation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Gimpei Ito (Hyogo, Japan) and Hiroshi Fujiwara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A characteristic calculation device includes a sensor information obtainer that obtains position information indicating a position of a motor as detected by a position detector, and acceleration information indicating an acceleration of a movable part connected to the motor as detected by an acce...