US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 16 for "Detecting heart rate variability using a hearable" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,980, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Detecting heart rate variability using a hearable" was invented by Xiaoran Fan (Irvine, Calif.), Trausti Thormundsson (Irvine, Calif.) and Richard Edwin Howard (Highland Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described that perform heart rate variability detection using a hearable. A hearable, such as an earbud, is capable of performing a novel physiological monitoring process termed herein audioplethysmography, which is an active acoustic method capable of sensing subtle physiologically-related changes observable at a user'...