ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,794, issued on June 24, was assigned to OMRON HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Muko, Japan).

"Sphygmomanometer" was invented by Zhe Li (Kyoto, Japan), Toshihiko Ogura (Kyoto, Japan), Toshiaki Koga (Kyoto, Japan), Akira Oshiumi (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshihide Tokko (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sphygmomanometer according to the present invention includes an air leakage testing unit that performs air leakage testing on an air system to obtain an air leakage testing result, and a storage unit that stores the air leakage testing result. The air leakage testing result stored in the storage unit is displayed, on a display device, in a fi...