ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,967, issued on April 21, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Sensor device and timepiece" was invented by Tomoyasu Kurokawa (Kokubunji, Japan) and Takayuki Satou (Uenohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device including a case main body, a sensor portion provided in the case main body, and an exterior member which is provided on a circumferential portion of the case main body, and has at least one first opening at a positioned shifted in a predetermined direction from an opposing direction of the sensor portion, in which a flow route where fluid is flowable into the sensor portion through at least the f...