US Patent Issued to Garmin International on June 24 for "Wrist-worn electronic device with optical cardiac monitor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,797, issued on June 24, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).

"Wrist-worn electronic device with optical cardiac monitor" was invented by Paul R. MacDonald (Calgary, Canada), Christopher J. Kulach (Cochrane, Canada), Tim A. Verschaeve (Calgary, Canada) and Benjamin A. Primeau (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrist-worn electronic device comprises a housing including a bottom wall configured to contact a user's wrist, an optical transmitter and receiver assembly and a processor. The optical transmitter and receiver assembly comprises a first optical transmitter array, a first optical receiver, a se...