ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,000, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HORIBA Advanced Techno Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Water quality meter data processing device, water quality meter data processing system and water quality meter data processing method" was invented by Yuichi Ichinari (Kyoto, Japan), Hideki Nakayama (Kyoto, Japan), Manabu Shibata (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuto Kaba (Kyoto, Japan) and Daisuke Irikura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water quality meter data processing device that processes measurement value data which is data pertaining to measurement values resulting from measurement by a water quality meter of a body being measured, the wa...