US Patent Issued to Apple on July 8 for "Methods and apparatus for detecting individual health related events" (California, Pennsylvania, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,776, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for detecting individual health related events" was invented by Gierad Laput (Pittsburgh), Jared LeVan Zerbe (Woodside, Calif.), William C. Athas (San Jose, Calif.), Andreas Edgar Schobel (San Francisco), Shawn R. Scully (Seattle), Brian H. Tsang (Belmont, Calif.), Kevin Lynch (Woodside, Calif.), Charles Maalouf (Seattle) and Shiwen Zhao (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Individual health related events (e.g., handwashing events) can be detected based on multiple sensors including motion and audio sensors. Detecting a qualifying ...