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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Visceral Fat Determination Device
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 17, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- Shozo Kawanishi and Koichi Okita, both of Akashi, Japan, have developed a visceral fat determining device.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provided which is capable of determining an amount of exercise involved in walking, as well as of obtaining quantitative information about visceral fat in the abdominal part of a subject and which can be used handily by being carried with the subject. The visceral fat determining device with a step-counting function is configured as follows."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The visceral fat determining device has a step-counting means for counting the number ...