US Patent Issued to NEC on Jan. 20 for "Gait measurement device, estimation system, gait measurement method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,496, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Gait measurement device, estimation system, gait measurement method, and recording medium" was invented by Hiroshi Kajitani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gait measurement device includes a first sensor that outputs an activation signal in response to detection of a magnetic field, a clock that generates a clock count value, a second sensor that measures a physical quantity related to movement of a foot, a control unit that is activated in response to the activation signal output from the first sensor to activate the clock and the second sensor, a data generation un...