ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,221, issued on March 17, was assigned to A&D COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Weighing apparatus configured to calculate failure risk, and inspection content proposing method of the same" was invented by Kazuna Okabe (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshikazu Nagane (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a weighing apparatus and a method capable of quantifying a failure risk based on an impact load and proposing an inspection content according to an impact. In order to achieve the object described above, a weighing apparatus includes a weighing sensor, an impact load quantifying unit configured to quantify an impact load from an accel...