ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,200, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to A&D COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for judging environment of balance, and apparatus for the same" was invented by Kazuna Okabe (Saitama, Japan) and Hisanori Oda (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic balance includes a weighing pan, a windshield, door opening and closing mechanisms configured to automatically open and close doors of the windshield, a weight sensor, a built-in weight, a weight applying and removing mechanism for the built-in weight, and a control unit, the control unit obtains a first standard deviation measured while the doors of the windshield are left cl...