US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Dec. 9 for "Drying time prediction method, drying time prediction system, and dryer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,502, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Drying time prediction method, drying time prediction system, and dryer" was invented by Tatsuro Yamada (Osaka, Japan) and Chieko Sasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drying time prediction method includes: obtaining an operation condition set at the start of operation of a first dryer; obtaining the first actual operation time period of each of at least one first operation performed by the first dryer; obtaining operation finish time information from a learned model by inputting, to the learned model, the opera...