ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,726, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"System and method for robust pulse oximetry using image reconstruction" was invented by Mai Tuyet Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiao Jin (San Ramon, Calif.), Paul D. Mannheimer (Los Altos, Calif.), Albert E. Cerussi (San Jose, Calif.) and Sankalita Saha (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A characteristic (e.g., SpO2) of a user's physiological signals can be estimated using a pulse oximeter. In some examples, inconsistent measurement of the physiological characteristic may occur despite the underlying physiological signals having quality characteristics co...