US Patent Issued to Google on June 17 for "Smart home device using a single radar transmission mode for activity recognition of active users and vital sign monitoring of inactive users" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,506, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Smart home device using a single radar transmission mode for activity recognition of active users and vital sign monitoring of inactive users" was invented by Dongeek Shin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Dixon (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Andrew William Goldenson (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for monitoring for contactless human interactions and health using a single radar transmission modulation mode are provided. Radar chirps may be output by a radar sensor operating in a burst mode. The burst mode radar data stream may be ...