ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,542, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Detecting conditions using heart rate sensors" was invented by Stephen J. Waydo (Saratoga, Calif.), Christopher J. Brouse (Saratoga, Calif.), Ian R. Shapiro (San Francisco), Joseph C. McBride (San Jose, Calif.), Michael O'Reilly (San Jose, Calif.) and Myra Mary Haggerty (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates to methods for measuring irregularities in a signal and corresponding devices. The devices can include a PPG sensor unit configured to detect multiple occurrences of a given event in the measured signal(s) over a sampling interval. In s...