US Patent Issued to Seiko Epson on Nov. 3 for "Method of managing carbon dioxide emission amount" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,971, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Seiko Epson Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of managing carbon dioxide emission amount" was invented by Koichiro Yokoyama (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a defibrating portion that defibrates a raw material by being driven by a motor, a current measurement portion that measures a current consumption of the motor, and a counting portion that counts the production count of sheets. The sheet manufacturing apparatus, at each time of running once, calculates a defibrating power amount that is a power consumption amount of the defibrating portion based on...