US Patent Issued to LIXIL on March 25 for "Determination device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,552, issued on March 25, was assigned to LIXIL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determination device" was invented by Hiroshige Aoyama (Tokyo), Kenta Tanaka (Tokyo) and Hiroto Miwa (Ashiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of a target image in which excrement is captured and a determination unit configured to determine a characteristic of the excrement in the target image, select a part of the excrement specified according to a time series of excretion, and confirm a representing characteristic for representing the excrement."

The patent was filed on Sep...