ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,647, issued on March 17, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).

"Evaluation apparatus, evaluation method, and evaluation program" was invented by Yu Okano (Tokyo), Junya Sakaguchi (Tokyo), Takumi Nakajima (Tokyo), Shinya Hirasawa (Tokyo), Shimpei Takemoto (Tokyo) and Yoshishige Okuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaluation apparatus, an evaluation method, and an evaluation program applicable to a quality evaluation of sintered bodies are provided. The evaluation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a cross-sectional image obtained by photographing a cross-section of a sintered body group stained ...