ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,358, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALICAPS Co. LTD. (Yamatokoriyama, Japan).
"Capsule mass measuring device" was invented by Kyosuke Ikeuchi (Yamatokoriyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capsule mass measuring device includes conveyer roller and measurement device having measurement plate. Conveyer roller is provided with protrusions and accommodation parts formed between adjacent protrusions, and each of which accommodating the capsule such that a longitudinal direction of the capsule is arranged along rotation axis. Measurement plate is provided with groove part and the measurement plate is arranged such that the...