US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Health promotion system and health promotion method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,544, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Health promotion system and health promotion method" was invented by Issei Nakashima (Katsushika-ku, Japan), Toru Miyagawa (Seto, Japan), Hideo Hasegawa (Nagoya, Japan), Yusuke Kinoshita (Ota-ku, Japan) and Shotaro Yasuda (Taito-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first exemplary aspect is a health promotion system using a computer, the health promotion system including: a door mechanism configured to be opened by an operation performed by a person; a control unit configured to control the door mechanism; and identification information acquisition unit...