ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,490, issued on June 17, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Conversion adapter" was invented by Kouki Ejiri (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroaki Ichikawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hidesato Uegaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Akihiko Shibata (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kiyotaka Asai (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hirofumi Tsuchimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Koji Tanaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kyoshiro Okude (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversion adapter is provided that includes a radio communication unit that receives biological information based on digital data transmitted from an external biological sensor by radio co...