ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,157, issued on June 3, was assigned to CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Hefei, China).

"State monitoring method, state monitoring apparatus and state monitoring system for developing device" was invented by Xiaojun Liu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state monitoring method, a state monitoring apparatus and a state monitoring system for a developing device are provided. After image information is obtained through the acquired video information of the developing device, it is determined by an analysis unit whether the image information includes nozzle anomaly information, and alarm information is issued after the nozzl...