US Patent Issued to JAPAN RADIO on May 13 for "Overboard fall detection unit, portable terminal, and server device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,085, issued on May 13, was assigned to JAPAN RADIO Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Overboard fall detection unit, portable terminal, and server device" was invented by Tomoki Tanishita (Tokyo), Nobuhisa Murata (Tokyo), Juichi Suzuki (Tokyo) and Taisei Kumazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overboard fall detection unit including: a water environment sensor that is equipped on a ship crewperson and that outputs water environment data around the ship crewperson; an overboard fall detection part that detects an overboard fall of the ship crewperson on the basis of the water environment data; and an overboard fall notification part that tr...