ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,747, issued on May 13, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wearable device, control method for wearable device, and control program for wearable device" was invented by Naoya Hidaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a wearable device that enables determining with high accuracy whether the wearable device is mounted on a living body or a fitting to be worn by a living body, the wearable device includes a base member, a receiving quality index acquisition unit, a sensor, and a transmitter. The receiving quality index acquisition unit receives a GPS signal, and acquires a receiving quality index of the GPS signal...