US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 1 for "Biological information acquisition device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,126, issued on July 1, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biological information acquisition device" was invented by Tsukasa Eguchi (Matsumoto, Japan), Hitoshi Tsuchiya (Shiojiri, Japan), Ayae Sawado (Kai, Japan) and Akira Ikeda (Chino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological information acquisition device includes a light source configured to emit a laser beam; a light branching element configured to branch the laser beam into a first luminous flux and a second luminous flux; a first light receiving element configured to receive the first luminous flux; a second light receiving element configured to receive scatter...