ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,541, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Sharp NEC Display Solutions Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Equipment management device, equipment management method, and program" was invented by Kazuya Honma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The equipment management device includes an information collection unit, a specific state detection unit, a cause estimation unit, and a countermeasure process execution unit. The information collection unit acquires a video of a conference room or a sound of the conference room. The specific state detection unit detects that equipment provided in the conference room is in a specific state on the basis of a result of...