ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,780, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Manufacturing processes for biopotential-based wrist-wearable devices and resulting manufactured biopotential -based wrist-wearable devices" was invented by Kyra Gould (Seattle), Nicole Cullen (Redmond, Wash.), Pinghung Wei (Kirkland, Wash.) and Keen Butcher (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wrist-wearable device is described herein. The wrist wearable device includes a first skin-contact portion. The first skin contact portion (i) is coupled with a first set of biopotential-signal sensors for detecting first biopotential signa...