ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,375, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).
"Remote control device, and remote control system" was invented by Kazuri Higashi (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Ryota Auchi (Tokorozawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory stores gesture information corresponding to a gesture of a medical worker that is allocated to a function of a medical device. A sensor is configured to detect a gesture. A transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit a control signal for remotely controlling the function. A processor is configured to cause the transmitter to transmit the control signal in a case where the gesture correspo...