US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Feb. 4 for "Biological information acquisition device and biological information acquisition method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,535, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biological information acquisition device and biological information acquisition method" was invented by Chihiro Kishi (Tokyo), Hirotaka Sakamoto (Tokyo), Atsushi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Shintaro Watanabe (Tokyo) and Jun Ishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological information acquisition device includes a detection-value acquisition unit to acquire a detection value from a non-contact biometric sensor, a vital measurement unit to measure a vital sign of a target person (TP) using the detection value, an image-data acquisition unit to acquire image data ...