ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,039, issued on March 25, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Heart rate detecting device capable of alleviating motion interference" was invented by Ren-Hau Gu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This instant disclosure provides a heart rate detecting device which includes an image sensor. The image sensor generates a first mixed signal within a first interval and generates a second mixed signal within a second interval, wherein the first mixed signal contains light information of first multiple light wavelengths having a first intensity ratio from one another, and the second mixed sig...