ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,595, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to YUYAMA MFG. Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pharmaceutical packaging apparatus, method of determining remaining quantity of pharmaceutical packaging paper and pharmaceutical packaging paper roll" was invented by Katsunori Yoshina (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Noriyoshi Fujii (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medicine packaging apparatuses and methods for accurately determining a remaining sheet amount of a medicine packaging sheet are described. The apparatus includes: a roll support section to which a core tube of a medicine packaging sheet roll is attached; a senso...