ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,245, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Intermediation device and intermediating method using the same" was invented by Yasuhiko Hashimoto (Kobe, Japan), Masayuki Kamon (Akashi, Japan), Shigetsugu Tanaka (Akashi, Japan) and Yoshihiko Maruyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intermediation device (2) receives, from a plurality of robots (5), recruitments of remote workers who operate the plurality of robots (5) and perform a plurality of works. The intermediation device (2) posts the recruitments of the remote workers who perform the plurality of works on a site on a network (4)...