ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,835, issued on May 12, was assigned to Azbil Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inspection device" was invented by Shigeki Ishii (Tokyo), Kayo Suzuki (Tokyo) and Kenichi Yamagata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To grasp a state of a combustion apparatus based on a flame state of a burner, a discharge number measurement unit measures the number of discharges of a flame sensor per unit time. A light emission information generation unit generates, as light emission information, information obtained based on a value obtained by dividing a total (accumulation) of the number of discharges per unit time measured by the discharge number measurement unit b...