ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,381, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ouraring Inc. (San Francisco).
"Wearable computing device" was invented by Curt C. von Badinski (Valencia, Calif.), Michael J. Strasser (San Francisco) and Peter Twiss (Lakewood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart ring includes a curved housing having a U-shape interior storing components including: a curved battery approximately conforming to the curved housing, a semi-flexible PCB approximately conforming to the curved housing and having mounted theron: a motion sensor for generating motion data from physical perturbations of the smart ring, a memory for storing executable instruct...