ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,318, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to J-OIL MILLS Inc. (Tokyo).

"Oil and fat deterioration prediction device, deterioration prediction system, deterioration prediction method, oil and fat replacement system, and fryer system" was invented by Yoriyasu Hirosue (Tokyo), Takashi Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Masaharu Hashimoto (Tokyo) and Shinsuke Kozono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a deterioration prediction device with which it is possible to easily and precisely predict deterioration of an edible oil and fat.The deterioration prediction device 1 of the present invention comprises an acoustic data acquisition unit 2 that acqui...