ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,200, issued on July 15, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Sweat sensor" was invented by Laurentia Johanna Huijbregts (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Frank Mueller (Oosterhout, Netherlands), Lutz Christian Gerhardt (Noord-Brabant, Netherlands) and Kiran Hamilton J. Dellimore (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to devices and methods for uptaking and analyzing sweat from a skin of a user. In particular, it is proposed to provide a variability in the size of the sweat sensor inlets (102, 103, 104), which can be used for improving the determination of sweat parame...