ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,940, issued on May 5, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Work analysis device" was invented by Daijiroh Ichimura (Hyogo, Japan), Hidehiko Shin (Osaka, Japan) and Tomokazu Ichiriki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work analysis device is for generating information on works performed by at least one worker in a workplace, and includes: a storage configured to store map information indicating an area associated with each of the works; an acquisition circuitry configured to acquire position information including positions of the at least one worker at each time in the workp...