ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,071, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Contact detection for physiological sensor" was invented by Chad A. Bossetti (Springs, Colo.), Thomas J. Sullivan (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoyu Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paras Samsukha (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Anirban Chatterjee (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting user contact with one or more electrodes of a physiological signal sensor can be used to ensure physiological signals measured by the physiological signal sensor meet waveform characteristics (e.g., of a clinically accurate physiological signal). In some examples, a mobile and/or wear...