US Patent Issued to JFE Steel on June 16 for "Apparatus and method for measuring granular objects, abnormality detection method, and method for producing granular iron" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,684, issued on June 16, was assigned to JFE Steel Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus and method for measuring granular objects, abnormality detection method, and method for producing granular iron" was invented by Arihiro Matsunaga (Tokyo), Shunsuke Mori (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Tsuchida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for measuring granular objects, an abnormality detection method, and a method for producing granular iron are provided. An apparatus for measuring granular objects thrown into a liquid surface, the apparatus including an imaging device configured to continuously image the liquid surface, and a proces...