ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,561, issued on July 1, was assigned to A&D COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Inclination detecting method and apparatus for the same" was invented by Yoshikuni Sato (Saitama, Japan), Yoshikazu Nagane (Saitama, Japan) and Satoshi Suzaki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inclination of a weighing apparatus is automatically detected by the apparatus itself while preventing an increase in the number of components. In order to achieve the object described above, a weighing apparatus includes a weight sensor, a built-in weight to be loaded on the weight sensor, an adding/removing unit for adding/removing the built-in weight, a memory s...