ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,703, issued on June 9, was assigned to SEIKO EPSON Corp. (Japan).

"Biological fluid information acquisition apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Kobayashi (Hara-Mura, Japan), Ayae Sawado (Kai, Japan) and Tsukasa Eguchi (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological fluid information acquisition apparatus includes a light source, a prism, a first light receiving element, a second light receiving element, a differential circuit, and a signal processing unit. The prism has a first boundary face that branches a laser beam emitted from the light source into a first luminous flux and a second luminous flux, a second boundary fac...