ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,711, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Seoul, South Korea) and IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Wearable device and method for controlling the same" was invented by Hyunjung Yi (Seoul, South Korea), Wonseop Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Seongjin Park (Seoul, South Korea), Rhokyun Kwak (Seoul, South Korea), Jina Choi (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and Sangha Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device according to the present disclosure includes: a communication portion; a body fluid sensor configured to ...