ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,201, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Finger motion exercise assisting apparatus and finger motion exercise assisting method" was invented by Ying Yin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A finger motion exercise assisting apparatus and related method receive input information from an external device. A prompter prompts a test subject with a prompt instruction to perform a finger motion exercise; and a finger motion catcher is used to catch finger motion data of the test subject. A finger motion analyzer includes an exercise item generator, a motion parameter calculator, and a finger function evaluat...