US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 11 for "Devices, methods and systems for ear-based photoacoustic plethysmography" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,219, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Devices, methods and systems for ear-based photoacoustic plethysmography" was invented by Emily Kathryn Brooks (Amherst, N.Y.), John Keith Schneider (Williamsville, N.Y.), Nicholas Buchan (San Jose, Calif.), Evan Michael Breloff (Kenmore, N.Y.), Ye Zhan (Buffalo, N.Y.), Vivekananda Parampalli Adiga (Williamsville, N.Y.) and Shounak Uday Gore (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be configured to control a light source system residing in or on a first support structure portion of the apparatus to transmit light through an ear volume residin...