ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,357, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to A&D COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Moisture meter" was invented by Kazuma Funahashi (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a heat-drying moisture meter that presents reliability with respect to a measurement result. In order to solve the above problem, a moisture meter includes a mass sensor configured to measure the mass of a sample placed on a weighing dish, a heating chamber having the weighing dish placed inside, a heating unit configured to heat the heating chamber, and an arithmetic control unit configured to calculate the moisture content of the sample from a sample mass befo...