US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY on Sept. 9 for "Food animal freshness/degree of maturation evaluating device, and freshness/degree of maturation evaluating method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,120, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Hokkaido, Japan).

"Food animal freshness/degree of maturation evaluating device, and freshness/degree of maturation evaluating method" was invented by Takaaki Inada (Tsukuba, Japan), Hiroshi Nagaishi (Sapporo, Japan), Naoto Tsubouchi (Sapporo, Japan) and Yuji Shinohara (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A freshness/degree of maturation evaluating device for evaluating freshness and/or degree of maturation of food animal, freshness/degree of maturation evaluating device provided with: temperature parameter calculation unit that ca...