ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,354, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kyushu University National University Corp. (Japan) and Kurume Research Park Co. Ltd. (Japan).
"Disease risk assessment apparatus, disease risk assessment method, computer readable medium, and food for dementia prevention" was invented by Toshiharu Ninomiya (Fukuoka, Japan), Yoshinori Katakura (Fukuoka, Japan), Satoru Kuhara (Fukuoka, Japan), Jun Hata (Fukuoka, Japan) and Kazuhiro Fujita (Kurume, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disease risk assessment apparatus (100) includes an assessment unit (1) for assessing the risk of developing dementia in a subject, based on the concentration of ...