ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,988, issued on May 13, was assigned to FIRST SCREENING Co. LTD. (Japan).

"Server and information processing method for collecting human vital data and providing the data to users" was invented by Yohei Kanazawa (Tokyo) and Yoshito Tsunoda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server receives a first type of time-series vital data from a first system that collects the first type of time-series vital data from a first group of subjects, and receives a second type of time-series vital data from a second system that collects a second type of time-series vital data from a second group of subjects. Provided are a storage unit for storing...