ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,288, issued on May 13, was assigned to BAYER CROPSCIENCE K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processor for diagnosing the state of a humidity sensor" was invented by Satoshi Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an information processor. The information processer comprises a diagnostic unit for diagnosing a state of a humidity sensor, the diagnostic unit diagnosing that the humidity sensor is in a deteriorated state when days on which a proportion of detection data of the humidity sensor indicating 100% humidity out of all detection data for one day is equal to or greater than a reference proportion, have ...