ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,135, issued on July 1, was assigned to INFIC Inc. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Bed-leaving prediction notification device and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Masatoshi Masuda (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bed-leaving prediction device (server device) (10) is connected through a digital communication network (60) to: a portable information processing terminal (40) of care staff; environmental sensors (32 to 34) for detecting environment values such as temperature in a room; a human sensor (31); and a bed sensor (35). A bed-leaving prediction processing section (115) calculates a bed-leaving prediction value in...