US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on March 4 for "Tool system, tool management method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,093, issued on March 4, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Tool system, tool management method, and program" was invented by Ryosuke Sasaki (Osaka, Japan), Masanori Kurita (Osaka, Japan) and Kouji Ikeda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool system includes a portable tool, an image capturing unit, and a control unit. The tool includes a driving unit to be activated with power supplied from a power source. The image capturing unit is provided for the tool and generates a captured image. The control unit controls the tool based on the captured image. The control unit has a...