ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,886, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Biological information measurement device, biological information measurement method, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Hideaki Hasegawa (Tokyo), Takayori Ito (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Tamaoka (Tokyo), Koji Kawajiri (Tokyo) and Rihito Kuroda (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological information measurement device includes: a scattering rate calculating unit configured to calculate a scattering rate of light at an interface between a medium present in a biological object or in a specimen and...