ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,137, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Management device, management method, and correspondence data generating method" was invented by Naoki Okada (Sakura, Japan) and Ken Osato (Sakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management device that manages a unit including a drum and a long object wound around the drum, the management device includes: a receiver that receives, from a user terminal, a captured image obtained by capturing an image of the unit; and a controller that accesses correspondence data obtained by associating each of image capture results, obtained by successively capturing images of th...