US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Liquid viscosity measurement device and liquid viscosity measurement method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,050, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Liquid viscosity measurement device and liquid viscosity measurement method" was invented by Shintaro Kasai (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Sakurada (Tokyo), Futoshi Hirose (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Okada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid viscosity measurement device for measuring a viscosity of a liquid includes: a substrate; a channel configured to be installed on the substrate so that the liquid flows through the channel; a heating element configured to generate a bubble in the liquid inside the channel; a sensor configured to be placed in a vicini...