US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Dec. 9 for "Swallowing sensor device and methods of manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,930, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Swallowing sensor device and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hiroshi Miyaguchi (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swallowing sensor device includes a sensor unit comprising a sensor and a device that wirelessly transmits information detected by the sensor and a board group formed by stacking a plurality of rigid boards. The board group includes a fist rigid board on which one part of the sensor unit is mounted, a second rigid board on which other part of the sensor unit except for the one part of the sensor unit is mounted, and a...