ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,902, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Health support apparatus, health support method, and program" was invented by Akiko Kishi (Tokyo), Masahiro Nakamura (Tokyo) and Thomas Svensson (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a health support apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires first data about a target user which is data about health and does not change or changes by less than a predetermined amount in a predetermined period and second data about the target user which is data about health and changes by more than or equal to the predetermined amount in the predetermined peri...