ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,072, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biological information detection device and biological information detection method" was invented by Shun Tonooka (Tokyo), Kota Nomura (Tokyo), Kazuki Yamauchi (Tokyo), Tetsuya Matsuda (Tokyo), Takami Tomiyama (Osaka, Japan), Tomohiro Umeda (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Seino (Suita, Japan), Toshiyasu Sakane (Kobe, Japan), Akiko Katsumi (Kobe, Japan), Toshihiko Kiwa (Okayama, Japan) and Akihiro Izawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological information detection device includes an administration mechanism to administer magnetic particles into a brain, the m...