ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,757, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (Ogaki, Japan).
"Water-drinking state identification device, water-drinking state identification program, and storage medium" was invented by Toyoaki Fukui (Ogaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water-drinking state identification device includes: a change rate computing unit configured to compute a temperature change rate that is a change amount per unit time of an intragastric temperature measured by a temperature sensor disposed in a stomach of an animal; a first timing identification unit configured to identify, as a first timing, a timing at which the ...