ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,936, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Obtaining health data from a health kiosk information system and notifying users according to pre-registered notification rules" was invented by Shohei Arai (Tokyo), Shun Tanaka (Parsippany, N.J.), Jayasimha Nuggehalli (Cupertino, Calif.) and Kaoru Watanabe (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for obtaining health data from a health kiosk information system and notifying users according to pre-registered notification rules are provided. In one technique, a computing system (1) receives, over one or more computer networks, from a health kiosk inform...