ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,060, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Elliptic Laboratories ASA (Oslo, Norway).

"Activity monitoring for electronic device" was invented by Espen Klovning (Strommen, Norway) and John Magne Helgesen Roe (Sorumsand, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and an electronic device including at least two measuring units, wherein a first measuring unit is an active measuring unit emitting and receiving a signal related to a first chosen parameter in a sequence, said sequence having inactive periods, and wherein the second measuring unit comprises an essentially continuous measurement of a predeter...