US Patent Issued to Sintokogio on July 21 for "Excretion care assistance device and excretion care assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,685, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).

"Excretion care assistance device and excretion care assistance method" was invented by Akifumi Kogawa (Nagoya, Japan), Masataka Shiraki (Nagoya, Japan) and Masahiko Nagasaka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An excretion care assistance device includes a processor. The processor is configured to carry out a first specification process of specifying defecation times of care-receivers on the basis of sensor terminals and a second specification process of specifying a time at which group excretion care is to be started for at least one care-receiver gro...