US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 27 for "Joint estimation of respiratory and heart rates using ultra-wideband radar" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,772, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Joint estimation of respiratory and heart rates using ultra-wideband radar" was invented by Hoang Viet Nguyen (Plano, Texas), Raghunandan M. Rao (Allen, Texas), Yuming Zhu (Plano, Texas), Yi Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jiho Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for contactless vital sign monitoring includes transmitting, via a transceiver, radar signals for object detection. The method also includes generating a clutter removed channel impulse response from received reflections of the radar signals a portio...