ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,975, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MEDIPAL HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Temperature measurement device and quality control system" was invented by Kazunori Nagasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature measurement device 25A is a temperature measurement device 25A that includes a temperature sensor 25d and that is accommodated in a container 21 along with an article 23, and includes a temperature deviation determination unit 25h that determines whether a temperature of the article 23 in the container 21 having been detected by the temperature sensor 25d at a predetermined measurement interval has deviated from a referen...