US Patent Issued to SEIKO EPSON on July 21 for "Biometric information acquisition device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,937, issued on July 21, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Biometric information acquisition device" was invented by Satoshi Shimizu (Shiojiri, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biometric information acquisition device includes an acquisition section that obtains first information based on a light amount of the red light received by the first light receiving element, second information based on a light amount of the infrared light received by the second light receiving element, and third information based on a light amount of the green light received by the third light receiving element; and the drive control section th...