ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,511, issued on July 22, was assigned to A&D COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Moisture meter, state diagnosis method for moisture meter, and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Kanno (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshikazu Nagane (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a moisture meter includes a mass scale for measuring a mass of a specimen, a heater for heat the specimen, a processor causes the moisture meter to control the heater to heat the specimen until a change in mass of the specimen becomes not more than a predetermined threshold and calculate a moisture content of the specimen, and a storage unit. The processor causes t...