ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,305, issued on May 20, was assigned to HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Monitoring and early warning device for preventing falling during getting up of old people" was invented by Shihua Cao (Hangzhou, China), Wenhao Qi (Hangzhou, China), Bin Wang (Hangzhou, China), Shiying Shen (Hangzhou, China), Chaoqun Dong (Hangzhou, China), Xiaohong Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Sixie Li (Hangzhou, China), Jianwen Zeng (Hangzhou, China), Xin Liu (Hangzhou, China), Jiani Yao (Hangzhou, China), Xiajing Lou (Hangzhou, China), Yankai Shi (Hangzhou, China), Bingsheng Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Han Shi (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Off...