ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,987, issued on Feb. 10.

"Wearable monitoring device with intelligent measuring head" was invented by Jozsef Nieberl (Folsom, Calif.) and Huba Horompoly (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cordless, wireless system for providing the long-term collection of medical data that may be used in digital ECG analysis, that includes a retaining element that retains a sensor in close proximity or adjacent to a user's skin and an intelligent measuring head that obtains the information provided by the sensor and transmits the obtained information to a processing system. The processing system collates the obtained information and dete...