ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,546, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Prediction method, recording medium, prediction system, server, and display device" was invented by Chieko Sasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuro Yamada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction method includes acquisition step, prediction step, determination step, and processing step. In acquisition step, parameters for a drying operation are acquired. In prediction step, based on the acquired parameters, a drying time required for the drying operation is predicted by a first prediction method. In determination st...