ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,503, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for estimation of abdominal fat" was invented by Artem Yurievich Nikishov (Kolomna, Russia), Jonghee Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minhyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to studying physical properties of biological tissues, and for example, to a method and system for indirect estimation of the abdominal subcutaneous fat area and the abdominal visceral fat area. The technical result is reduced complexity and increased accuracy and speed of estimation of the abdominal subc...