ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,188, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ISHIDA Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Management system" was invented by Nobuki Hashiguchi (Ritto, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Ishibashi (Ritto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system (1) manages a production line (2) including a processing apparatus (20) and an inspection apparatus (40). The management system (1) includes: a control unit (61) that estimates a processing time at which a defective food is processed by the processing apparatus (20) based on a time at which the defective food determined as a defective product by inspection by the inspection apparatus (40) is inspected; and ...