ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,008, issued on July 22, was assigned to SATAKE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Optical grain discriminating apparatus" was invented by Tomoyuki Miyamoto (Tokyo), Takuya Nishida (Tokyo), Hideaki Ishizu (Tokyo) and Masaaki Sadamaru (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection unit for performing an optical inspection on a grain to be transferred by transfer means includes a visible light source, a near-infrared light source, a visible light detection unit, and a near-infrared light detection unit. A determination unit plots wavelength components of red (R), green (G), and blue (B), and a near-infrared light component in a three-dimensional spac...