US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on April 15 for "Wearable environmental sensor device and monitoring system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,552, issued on April 15, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wearable environmental sensor device and monitoring system" was invented by Akio Tokura (Tokyo), Kei Kuwabara (Tokyo), Hiroto Matsuoka (Tokyo), Takako Ishihara (Tokyo), Toshiki Wada (Tokyo), Yuichi Higuchi (Tokyo) and Yuki Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable environmental sensor device includes a temperature/humidity sensor disposed on a wall surface of a housing that is exposed to an environment and configured to measure ambient environmental information around a living body, and a protective structure formed around the temp...