US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY on May 12 for "Rolling state observation apparatus and rolling state observation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,267, issued on May 12, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Rolling state observation apparatus and rolling state observation method" was invented by Hiroshi Utsunomiya (Suita, Japan), Koji Ono (Suita, Japan), Ryo Matsumoto (Suita, Japan) and Yutaka Yabuta (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a rolling observation technique whereby the state of rolling on a rolling interface between a material to be processed and a roll can be observed easily and on site; a rolling state observation apparatus for observing the state of rolling at the rolling interface between a material to be processed and a roll duri...