ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,535, issued on May 12, was assigned to ASICS Corp. (Kobe, Japan).

"Posture estimating device, posture estimating system, and posture estimating method" was invented by Toshiaki Okamoto (Kobe, Japan), Satoru Abe (Kobe, Japan), Shunsuke Yamagata (Kobe, Japan) and Masanori Sakaguchi (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A posture estimating device includes: at least one sensor attached to the person to be measured, the at least one sensor acquiring walking data based on an acceleration of three axes and an angular velocity of the three axes at at least one location of the person to be measured; a processing circuitry that estimates...