ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,839, issued on July 22, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Timing prediction method, timing prediction device, timing prediction system, program, and construction machinery system" was invented by Kazunori Ohno (Sendai, Japan), Kento Yamada (Sendai, Japan) and Ryunosuke Hamada (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movement data of a plurality of positions on an observation object performing a predetermined movement action is acquired, feature data is generated by performing frequency analysis on the movement data, a transition sequence of a primitive action is extracted by segmenting the feature data, and bas...