ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,032, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mettler-Toledo (Changzhou) Measurement Technology Ltd. (Changzhou, China), Mettler-Toledo (Changzhou) Precision Instruments Ltd. (Changzhou, China) and Mettler-Toledo International Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Weighing system and weighing method with object recognition" was invented by Song Zhang (Changzhou, China), Shenhui Wang (Changzhou, China), Shenjian Qian (Changzhou, China), Jindong Cui (Changzhou, China) and Gang Yang (Changzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weighing method comprises the steps of: recognizing one or more objects to be detected on a first scale platf...