ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,237, issued on June 17, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Excrement determination method, excrement determination device, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Hirofumi Kanai (Osaka, Japan), Toshihide Mori (Osaka, Japan) and Yuka Yamada (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excrement determination method includes: acquiring sensing data detected by a first gas sensor; acquiring image data captured by a camera; making a first determination of determining whether a gas concentration indicated by the sensing data is higher than a first reference concentration; making a se...