ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,616, issued on June 17, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluid balance management system, prediction device, learned model generation device, and learned model generation method" was invented by Takuya Kawashima (Tokorozawa, Japan), Wataru Matsuzawa (Tokorozawa, Japan), Hiroto Sano (Tokorozawa, Japan), Katsuyoshi Suzuki (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Yoshihiro Takayanagi (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid balance management system includes: a detection device configured to output a detection signal corresponding to a load applied to a bed in which a subject is present; a prediction device configured to acq...