ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,048, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for measuring heart rate" was invented by Kirill Gennadievich Beliaev (Moscow), Dmitrii Igorevich Chernakov (Moscow), Viacheslav Sergeevich Kholoburdin (Moscow) and Vladimir Mikhailovich Semenov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring heart rate is provided. The method includes illuminating a body portion with light, detecting light scattered by tissues of the body portion and blood particles by a plurality of photodetectors including at least one pair of photodetectors which are connected in anti-paral...