ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,397, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to A&D COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Moisture meter" was invented by Masahiro Kanno (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a moisture meter including a mass measurement unit for measuring the mass of a specimen, a heater for heating the specimen, a control arithmetic unit configured to control the heating unit to heat the specimen until a change in the mass of the specimen becomes not more than a predetermined threshold and calculate the moisture content of the specimen, a timepiece for measuring a heating time, and a storage unit. The control arithmetic unit measures the moisture con...