ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,184, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Identification apparatus" was invented by Yuki Yonetani (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identification apparatus that identifies properties of a specimen conveyed at a predetermined conveying velocity by a conveying unit includes an identification unit configured to identify a material included in the specimen and acquire a length in a conveying direction of the specimen, and a command unit configured to generate a control signal for controlling a screening device to perform a screening operation with predetermined intensity corresponding to the length, wh...