US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on April 8 for "Apparatus, methods and computer programs for monitoring a user's pulse" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,520, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, methods and computer programs for monitoring a user's pulse" was invented by Zoran Radivojevic (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and Computer Programs for Monitoring a User's Pulse An apparatus, method and computer program, the apparatus comprising; a pulse monitoring module; the pulse monitoring module comprising detecting means for detecting a user's pulse and feedback means for providing haptic feedback to the user indicative of the detected pulse; and controlling circuitry arranged to control the pulse monito...