ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,883, issued on May 20, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electric tool system, management system, management method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Yuta Hara (Osaka, Japan), Takayuki Sasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Tetsuya Ohashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric tool system includes an electric tool and a management system. The electric tool includes a first communications unit that establishes wireless communication. The electric tool is used to do work on a work target. The management system includes a second communications unit that communicat...