ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,127, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Management system, management device, management method, and non-transitory computer readable media" was invented by Takashi Kikkawa (Tokyo), Naoki Ikegawa (Tokyo), Takuji Kurino (Tokyo), Koh Takanose (Tokyo), Daisuke Taka (Tokyo) and Emi Kaiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a management system of coal and/or steelmaking dust being managed outdoors. The management system includes an imaging unit, a threshold information acquiring unit, and a determining unit. The imaging unit is configured to perform imaging of heat distribution...