ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,082, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).
"Wearing detection techniques for wearable devices" was invented by Jukka-Tapani Makinen (Oulu, Finland), Mika Petteri Kangas (Oulu, Finland) and Tero Juhani Vallius (Kontio, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wearing detection are described. A method may include directing light from a first light emitting element to a first light detecting element via an optical interface, at least one of the first light emitting element or the first light detecting element dedicated to detecting a level of surface contact at the optical inter...