ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,504, issued on June 17, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Vital sensor" was invented by Atsushi Kitamura (Nagano, Japan), Shigeyuki Adachi (Nagano, Japan), Toshiaki Asakawa (Nagano, Japan) and Yosuke Ogasa (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present vital sensor is a vital sensor configured to monitor a blood flow, and includes a strain generator to be attached to a measurement site in a subject, and a strain gauge disposed on the strain generator. The strain gauge includes three or more resistors. With a first direction being a direction in which a blood vessel extends in the measurement site and a...