ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,794, issued on July 7, was assigned to SEIKO GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SHOWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Toyko, Japan).

"Living-body monitoring device" was invented by Ryosuke Isogai (Matsudo, Japan), Yoshifumi Yoshida (Matsudo, Japan) and Koutaro Maki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A living-body monitoring device includes an electronic device including a circuit board and a living-body wearing instrument fixing or sealing the electronic device. A control unit, a battery, and an antenna are mounted on the circuit board. The circuit board has a length in a longitudinal direction and a length in a transverse direction and includes one or m...