US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 15 for "Operation plan generation apparatus, and operation plan generation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,698, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Operation plan generation apparatus, and operation plan generation method" was invented by Yu Urata (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation plan generation apparatus includes an operation plan input unit configured to receive an input of a first operation plan, the first operation plan being an operation plan of a vehicle, a work time estimation unit configured to estimate a work time of a driver at an operation destination, based on the first operation plan, external information including a possible influencing event for re...