ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,222, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electromyography processing apparatus, electromyography processing method and electromyography processing program" was invented by Osamu Saisho (Musashino, Japan), Shingo Tsukada (Musashino, Japan), Hiroshi Imamura (Musashino, Japan) and Atsunori Mihara (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromyography processing apparatus includes an electromyography acquiring unit configured to generate electromyography data indicating the time course of an electromyography acquired from an electrode set on a predetermined muscle of an exercise...