ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,358, issued on July 28, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Methods, systems, apparatus, electronic devices, and storage media for evaluating work tasks" was invented by Bin Zhang (Beijing), Armin Roux (Hochstadt a. d. Aisch, Germany), Shun Jie Fan (Beijing) and Kai Lin Niu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for evaluating a work task. An example includes: acquiring point cloud data of a workpiece in a work task and a three-dimensional image frame of a worker in the task; recognizing attribute information of the workpiece in a machine vision manner based on the data;...