ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,756, issued on May 27, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Computer device for attenuating motion artifacts in photoplethysmography in real time in order to reduce distortion attributable to change in distance of sensor and method using the same" was invented by Chul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sanghyun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide a computer device for attenuating motion artifacts in photoplethysmography (PPG) in real time and a method using the same. The computer device obtains a primarily restored PPG AC signal from a...