ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,283, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Control method and control system" was invented by Yoshihiko Kamiya (Osaka, Japan), Motoshi Anabuki (Hyogo, Japan) and Yuki Matsumura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method includes the following. First information indicating a group control level is determined based on operation skills of operators who each perform remote monitoring or remote operation on a moving body. Second information indicating an attribute-dependent control level is determined based on attribute information on the operators. Thi...