ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,300, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ASTEK TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Taiwan) and CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER (Taiwan).

"Weighing system" was invented by Ying-Li Lee (Tainan, Taiwan), Jiun-Hung Lin (Tainan, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Lu (Tainan, Taiwan), Yen-Jung Lu (Tainan, Taiwan), Chia-Chen Hsu (Tainan, Taiwan), Chih-Yi Li (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Yu Lee (Tainan, Taiwan), Chia-Chi Chang (Tainan, Taiwan), Ya-Wen Kung (Tainan, Taiwan), Li-Chien Yang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Huey-Jeng Yang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor, and a display, a reader, a switch, a scale, a memory device, intake-type buttons and output-...