ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,912, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Brain dysfunction evaluation system, brain dysfunction evaluation method, and program" was invented by Akihiko Kandori (Tokyo) and Yuko Sano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for evaluating a degree of brain dysfunction of a subject, such as a decline in cognitive function, calculates a difference in movement functions between both hands in a coordination movement. The system includes a storage device for storing time-series data on a finger movement task of each of both hands of a test subject acquired by a movement sensor; a data processing device for...