ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,433, issued on March 18, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Gas monitoring device, method, and program" was invented by Motohiro Asano (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gas monitoring device, a gas monitoring method, and a gas monitoring program detect presence or absence of a predetermined gas on the basis of an image obtained by imaging a monitoring target, receive an input of predetermined additional information including alarm activation presence/absence information representing whether or not to activate an alarm, and determine whether or not to suppress alarm activation of presence of gas detected in th...