US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods of spatial filtering for measuring electrical signals" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,951, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of spatial filtering for measuring electrical signals" was invented by Johannes Anne Bruinsma (Drachten, Netherlands), Erno H. Klaassen (Los Altos, Calif.), Paras Samsukha (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaoyu Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices and methods of using a mobile or wearable device for the acquisition and spatial filtering of ECG signals from an electrode array. One variation of a mobile or wearable device comprises an array of electrodes, one or more reference electrodes, and a controller ...