ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,959, issued on April 1, was assigned to ISHIDA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Weighing device" was invented by Shuichi Maeda (Ritto, Japan) and Masaaki Hojo (Ritto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to provide a weighing device in which dropping of articles from gripping means and reductions in weighing precision are suppressed. In a weighing device (100), when at least one of an operation state of grippers (30) and weighing results from weighing units (40) fulfills any condition from among "a weight value of articles (A) weighed by the weighing units (40) not being a preset target weight value,...