ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,290, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Garment and notification system" was invented by Yoshikane Tanaami (Nagoya, Japan), Miyuki Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Yukie Maeno (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reduced is, when a user performs an input operation, restriction of an action of the user other than the operation. A garment includes: a contact sensor which has fibrous electric conductors and which detects an input operation performed by a user; a transmitting section that transmits information indicative of the input operation to a management device; and a notification section that ex...