ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,348, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring system, monitoring method, program, and computer-readable recording medium in which computer program is stored" was invented by Nobuyuki Tatemizo (Tokyo) and Koji Hirano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system that is a system for monitoring an iron scrap, includes a photographing unit that photographs the iron scrap a plurality of times at different viewpoints or at different timings, an incompatible object identifying unit that inputs a plurality of images obtained by photographing with the photographing unit into a learning model to i...