US Patent Issued to NEC on June 17 for "Control apparatus, data acquisition method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,311, issued on June 17, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, data acquisition method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Yuko Ohta (Tokyo) and Hiromi Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus (10) includes a signal detection unit (110) and a data acquisition unit (120). The signal detection unit (110) acquires operation signals relating to an operation of a processing apparatus (20) that processes food and drink, and detects a specific operation signal relating to a specific operation from among the operation signals. The data acquisition unit (120) determines, based...