ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,814, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUANTA COMPUTER INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Vital-sign sensors" was invented by Chih-Hsiung Yu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Liang-Chia Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chia-Yin Lai (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Bo-Kai Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Wei-Ken Ting (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vital-sign sensor is provided. The vital-sign sensor includes an output/input port, a driving/conversion circuit, a detection circuit, and a controller. The output/input port includes a detection pin. The driving/conversion circuit is coupled to the output/input port and controlled by a control signal. The detection circ...