ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,684, issued on July 29, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method and storage medium" was invented by Mineto Satoh (Tokyo), Nobuharu Kami (Tokyo), Masatsugu Ogawa (Tokyo), Hisaya Wakayama (Tokyo), Takehiro Itou (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Oyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control device 1A mainly includes a determination means 15A, an abstract state setting means 16A, and a sequence generation means 17A. The determination means 15A determines, based on at least one of environment information relating to environment observed in a workspace of a controlled device to be controlled, state information relat...