ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,486, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Measurement device, measurement system, and measurement method" was invented by Kyohko Matsuda (Sakai, Japan), Yoshihisa Adachi (Sakai, Japan) and Tetsuya Okumura (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a signal value indicating an intensity of light transmitted through a living body or reflected by the living body, a color information acquisition unit that converts the signal value into color information, a color information determination unit that determines whether the color information sat...