US Patent Issued to NIKE on July 1 for "Athletic performance monitoring system utilizing heart rate information" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,120, issued on July 1, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Athletic performance monitoring system utilizing heart rate information" was invented by Steven H. Walker (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination source may be configured to illuminate the skin of the user. An illumination detector may detect electromagnetic radiation reflected of the skin of the user. A compensation module may be configured to determine the position of the skin of the user relative to the illumination detector. A processor may be configured to determine a heart rate of the user by analyzing information corresponding to an amount...