ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,819, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Physiological information processing system, signal processing device, switching device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Tetsuo Suzuki (Tokorozawa, Japan) and Yoshiharu Harada (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing device is mounted on a physiological information processing device switchable between a first state in which the physiological information processing device is operable by a first function and a second state in which the physiological information processing device is operable by a second ...