ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,380, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Unitless activity assessment and associated methods" was invented by Curtis A. Vock (Niwot, Colo.) and Perry Youngs (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system assesses activity and displays a unitless activity value. A detector senses activity of a user. A processor reads sensed activity data from the detector. A display displays the unitless activity value. An enclosure houses the detector and the processor. The processor periodically reads the sensed activity data from the detector and processes the data to generate an activity number, the numb...