ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,266, issued on March 18, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Physiological information measurement apparatus and physiological information system" was invented by Mitsuhiro Oura (Tokorozawa, Japan), Sou Kumagai (Tokorozawa, Japan), Wataru Matsuzawa (Tokorozawa, Japan), Nobuyuki Yasumaru (Tokorozawa, Japan), Kazuya Nagase (Tokorozawa, Japan), Hiroshi Torigai (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Naoki Fukushima (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physiological information measurement apparatus is configured to acquire a vital sign that is based on a physiological signal of a subject, and a captured image or a signal for ge...