ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,707, issued on June 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).
"Image and inspection system" was invented by Toshihiro Kuwano (Tokyo), Kazuki Miyabe (Tokyo) and Takaaki Sakamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image and an inspection system that make it possible to effectively utilize a result of past inspection. An audit position indicating a position where an audit is planned or a position where an audit is completed and a past audit position indicating a position where an audit was performed in the past within a predetermined range including the audit position are displayed over a map on a u...