US Patent Issued to Moraine on May 27 for "Hygiene evaluating device, hygiene evaluation imaging system, imaging stand, and hygiene evaluation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,073, issued on May 27, was assigned to Moraine Corp. (Tokyo).

"Hygiene evaluating device, hygiene evaluation imaging system, imaging stand, and hygiene evaluation method" was invented by Tsuneki Kusaba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a hygiene evaluation apparatus capable of precisely evaluating a hygiene state of hands. A hygiene evaluation apparatus includes a captured image acquiring unit that acquires a captured image of a hand, a calculating unit that calculates a score regarding a substance stuck to the hand, using the captured image, and an output unit that outputs the score calculated by the calculating unit...