ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,775, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ishida Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Weighing apparatus" was invented by Yoshinori Tarumoto (Ritto, Japan), Shoko Tajiri (Ritto, Japan) and Kohei Hayashida (Ritto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weighing apparatus includes: a transport unit capable of transporting an article; a weighing unit connected to the transport unit and configured to output an original signal related to a weight; and a weighing control unit configured to output a weighing value of the article by processing the original signal, wherein the weighing control unit is configured: to determine whether or not to adjust a ze...