US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Sept. 30 for "Food detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,918, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Food detection device" was invented by Shinichi Horii (Shiga, Japan), Zarina Rafii (Nara, Japan), Gantetsu Matsui (Kyoto, Japan), Taku Kariyazaki (Osaka, Japan) and Akio Nishiyama (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a food detection device 2 that can accurately detect, with a camera, a food item taken into or out of a refrigerator 1. The food detection device 2 is attached to an upper part of the refrigerator 1 by a user P and configured to detect, with a refrigerator compartment came...