ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,342, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for estimating bio-information" was invented by Chang Mok Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tak Hyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Ho Jun Chang (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating bio-information, may include: a sensor part having a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor configured to measure a PPG signal from an object of a user, and a force sensor configured to measure a contact force between the object and the PPG sensor; an output interface, which before the PPG signal is measured, is...