ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,914, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Work record extraction device and work record extraction system" was invented by Takaaki Ueno (Tokyo), Shoji Yamamoto (Tokyo), Shingo Hayashi (Tokyo) and Masahiko Niioka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a work record extraction device that can correctly select a drawing element corresponding to handwriting even if there is a handwriting deviation when position coordinates are collated between handwritten data overwritten on drawing data by manual input and a drawing element on the drawing data. The work record extraction device according to the invention ...