ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,884, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Excrement determination method, excrement determination device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Hideyuki Maehara (Osaka, Japan), Yuka Yamada (Nara, Japan) and Hirofumi Kanai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excrement determination device performs: acquiring image data captured by a camera which is located at a toilet provided in a toilet room to photograph a bowl of the toilet; acquiring sensing data from a sensor that detects sitting and leaving of a user onto and from the toilet; deciding whether t...