US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Sept. 1 for "Monitoring device of analyzer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,418, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Monitoring device of analyzer" was invented by Daisuke Hagihara (Kyoto, Japan), Taiki Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan) and Tohru Matsuura (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image of a display panel of a control device configured to control an analyzer, an image storage unit configured to store the captured image, and a state determination unit configured to determine a state of the analyzer based on the captured image."

The patent was filed on Sept. 13, 2022, under Application No...