ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,392, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Work assignment status monitoring system, work assignment status monitoring method, and work assignment status monitoring program" was invented by Shintaro Yoshizawa (Nagoya, Japan), Takayuki Kanai (Toyota, Japan), Kazuhiro Shintani (Toyokawa, Japan), Hideki Kajima (Toyota, Japan), Masayoshi Tsuchinaga (Nisshin, Japan), Yuto Mori (Toyota, Japan) and Hisataka Yuasa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work assignment status monitoring system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about one or more work areas, a monitoring t...