US Patent Issued to KEYENCE on June 23 for "Ion balance sensor and static elimination system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,519, issued on June 23, was assigned to KEYENCE Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Ion balance sensor and static elimination system" was invented by Masaaki Katsurada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an ion balance sensor and a static elimination system capable of grasping further information regarding an environment of a target space in addition to ion balance in the target space. The ion balance sensor includes a detection plate that is conductive and arranged in a target space. In the ion balance sensor, ion balance in the target space is detected based on a potential of the detection plate. An ion balance signal indica...