ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,736, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Wearable device" was invented by Shuji Fujita (Tokyo), Shinya Ootani (Tokyo), Kazuhito Wakana (Tokyo), Teppei Imamura (Tokyo), Tomoki Kyoizumi (Tokyo), Kazutaka Takaki (Tokyo), Tetsuharu Fukushima (Tokyo), Yukito Inoue (Tokyo) and Tomoya Takei (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device of which a degree of tightening can be adjusted using electronic control is provided. A wearable device includes a frame that is curved along a longitudinal direction of the frame and of which a degree of curvature is changeable; a plurality of first wires arranged in a wid...