ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,427, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Heartrate tracking techniques" was invented by Christian Schroeder (Palo Alto, Calif.), Divya Padmanabhan (Cupertino, Calif.), Erno H. Klaassen (Los Altos, Calif.), Evan R. Doll (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ian R. Shapiro (San Francisco), Jay Kriz Blahnik (Venice, Calif.), Roxanne B. Brittain (Berkeley, Calif.), Stephen J. Waydo (Saratoga, Calif.), Joefrey S. Kibuule (San Francisco) and Alexa VanHattum (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example technique may include tracking motion of a user wearing the wearable device using at least first sensors of one o...