US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Oct. 28 for "Determination device, system, and determination method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,059, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Determination device, system, and determination method" was invented by Suguru Nakao (Hyogo, Japan), Kei Tasaka (Osaka, Japan), Yuki Iwamoto (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Kunimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Ueda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination device includes an interface configured to acquire a vibration signal generated when a position of an object is switched, and a controller configured to determine a state of the object using the vibration signal."

The patent was filed on Feb. 27, 2023, under Appli...