ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,931, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to iRhythm Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Wearable device with conductive traces and insulator" was invented by Jeffrey Joseph Abercrombie II (Oakland, Calif.), Genaro Sebastian Sepulveda (Oakland, Calif.), Shena Hae Park (San Francisco), Ryan James Wensley (San Francisco), James Kihyun Lee (San Francisco) and Thomas Burnell Reeve III (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a wearable device that includes a housing, battery terminal connector, conductive traces, and an insulator for recording signals. The device may include a housing enclosing a circuit...