ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,340, issued on May 6, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"System and method for obtaining bodily function measurements using a mobile device" was invented by Russel Allyn Martin (Menlo Park, Calif.), Leonid Sheynblat (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Douglas Wayne Hoffman (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for obtaining at least one bodily function measurement are presented. A mobile device includes an outer body sized to be portable for user, a processor contained within the outer body, and a plurality of sensors physically coupled to the outer body. The sensors are ...