US Patent Issued to Oura Health on Oct. 7 for "Detecting an orientation of a wearable device using different wavelengths of transmitted light" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,563, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Detecting an orientation of a wearable device using different wavelengths of transmitted light" was invented by Tero Juhani Vallius (Kontio, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for detecting an orientation of a wearable device are described. The method may include the wearable device transmitting, using a light-emitting component, first light and second light and generating a first signal and a second signal based on the first light and the second light, respectively, received using photodetectors. The first and second light may be...