US Patent Issued to J-OIL MILLS on Nov. 4 for "Frying oil deterioration assessment device and frying oil deterioration assessment method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,171, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to J-OIL MILLS Inc. (Tokyo).

"Frying oil deterioration assessment device and frying oil deterioration assessment method" was invented by Masami Inoue (Tokyo), Ryohei Watanabe (Tokyo) and Kenichi Kakimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A degree of deterioration of frying oil in a fryer can be assessed easily and accurately. A frying oil deterioration assessment device 41 comprises a recording unit 45 that records types of fried foods 19 fried in frying oil 17 in an electric fryer 14 and a fried quantity for each type, a holding unit 46 that holds correlation data indicating a relationship betw...