ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,764, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to A&D COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Counting scale" was invented by Toshihiko Osawa (Saitama, Japan) and Kazutaka Suga (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A counting scale includes a weighing pan, a weighing sensor connected to the weighing pan, a storage unit including a registered data table storing, as registered data, a unique identification number, an article name, and a unit weight with respect to one article, an arithmetic processing unit configured to urge placement of one piece of the target article on the weighing pan, calculate a unit weighed value of the one piece of the target ar...