ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,384, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sensor device, nontransitory recording medium, and presuming method" was invented by Yuta Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Haruki Murata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device includes a first inertial sensor that contacts a body of a user, a second inertial sensor that contacts a neck of the user, and circuitry that presumes a behavior of the user based on a first signal detected by the first inertial sensor and a second signal detected by the second inertial sensor."

The patent was filed on Aug. 6, 2024, under Application No. 18/795,196.

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