ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,742, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MITSUFUJI Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and SUMITOMO BAKELITE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Belt and clothing" was invented by Hideyuki Mitera (Soraku-gun, Japan), Jun Okada (Tokyo), Motoki Sato (Tokyo) and Yumiko Yamanoi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt or clothing using an electrode having higher noise resistance and higher durability than an electrode formed of only a conductive fiber fabric or a conductive elastomer fabric. Clothing includes an electrode and an insulating fiber fabric in a detection region. The electrode is inside the detection region of the clothing so as to make contact with the ...