ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,210, issued on March 4, was assigned to SPP TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Maintenance support system, maintenance support method, program, method for generating processed image, and processed image" was invented by Takeshi Habe (Hyogo, Japan) and Norihiro Tsujioka (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance support system prevents leakage of confidential information by excluding a maintenance target while imposing few restrictions on imaging conditions. A maintenance support system 100 includes a wearable terminal 1 including an imaging device 12, a first identifying device 31 configured to identify a first three-dim...