ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,402, issued on April 22, was assigned to ISHIDA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Article sorting determination device" was invented by Shinya Yuki (Ritto, Japan), Kazuyuki Sugimoto (Ritto, Japan), Yoshiaki Sakagami (Ritto, Japan) and Futoshi Yurugi (Ritto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article sorting determination device including a conveying unit configured to convey an article, an acquisition unit configured to acquire first information and second information, the first information relating to a size of the article being conveyed by the conveying unit and the second information relating to a width of a passage port through which...