ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,261, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical photometer" was invented by Kota Saeki (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Naoki Kobayashi (Tokorozawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input interface is configured to receive a signal corresponding to a quantity of light that has passed through a living tissue of a subject. A pressurization controller is configured to control a pressurizing operation performed with a pressurization device attached to a body of the subject, thereby changing at least one of a thickness of the living tissue, an amount of blood contained in the living tissue, an amount of cellular i...