US Patent Issued to Kyoto Prefectural Public University on July 21 for "Urinary incontinence treatment device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,862, issued on July 21, was assigned to Kyoto Prefectural Public University Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Urinary incontinence treatment device" was invented by Osamu Ukimura (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasuyuki Naito (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A urinary incontinence treatment device includes: a sensor for detecting urination; stimulation pads configured to apply a stimulus to a wearer; and a mechanical member including a stimulus generation unit for generating a signal for causing the stimulation pads to apply the stimulus to the wearer and a control unit for controlling the stimulus generation unit to generate the signal in respo...