ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,368, issued on May 6, was assigned to HEARTBEAM INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Detection of atrial fibrillation" was invented by Ken Persen (Irvine, Calif.), Ross Grady Baker Jr. (Irvine, Calif.), Lucy Zhuang (Irvine, Calif.) and Jon Kaneshiro (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer software for detecting atrial fibrillation are described. Photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal data may be received as communicated by a PPG sensor of a wearable device worn by a user. Heartbeats from a portion of the PPG signal data may be determined and a heart rhythm type may be determined based on at least the heartbe...