ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,562, issued on July 14, was assigned to Anker Innovations Technology Co. Ltd. (Changsha, China).

"Body fat scale" was invented by Feng Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Wei Ding (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method of controlling a user display interface of a body fat scale and a body fat scale, the control method comprising: recognizing a foot action of a user in a wake-up state; and controlling a user display interface of the body fat scale based on the foot action. By the above method, the present application is able to improve the convenience of controlling the user display interfac...