ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,506, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Inspection device and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Naohisa Niimi (Kariya, Japan), Gentaro Masuda (Kariya, Japan), Hiroshi Tanioku (Kariya, Japan), Yoshihiko Shiraishi (Kariya, Japan) and Naoki Hasegawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device includes an output unit, a storage unit, and an inspection unit. The output unit outputs a control signal for controlling a water supply valve to control supply and no supply of irrigation water from a water supply pipe in an open farm field, between an open state and a clo...