ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,712, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KIKUSUI SEISAKUSHO LTD. (kyoto, Japan).

"Inspection device and molded-product processing system" was invented by Hiroshi Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior inspection device configured to inspect whether or not a molded product in a predetermined shape has defectiveness based on an image of the molded product, the inspection device including: a first foreign matter determiner configured to determine whether or not, in an obtained image of the molded product, a first inspection region located inside an outline of an assumed normal molded product P includes foreign ma...