ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,443, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MATSUO INDUSTRIES INC. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Wet sheet dispensing device" was invented by Motoi Matsuo (Obu, Japan), Yuji Sekitomi (Obu, Japan), Mikiya Ichikawa (Obu, Japan), Kazushi Akutsu (Obu, Japan) and Noriyuki Heike (Obu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wet sheet with a predetermined length is securely provided while drying is prevented. When a motor control part receives a detection signal from a hand hovering sensor, a motor is driven from a standby state to rotate a driving roller. When a cutting line is detected by a cutting line detecting sensor, the driving of the motor is contin...