US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on July 15 for "Wearable system and method for sensing and monitoring a swimming activity of a user" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,874, issued on July 15, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Wearable system and method for sensing and monitoring a swimming activity of a user" was invented by Enrico Rosario Alessi (Catania, Italy) and Fabio Passaniti (Syracuse, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can be used for detecting execution of a swimming activity of a user. The system includes a processing unit, a buffer, and an electrostatic-charge-variation sensor configured to sense a variation of electrostatic charge of the user during execution of the swimming activity and to generate a corresponding charge-variation signal. T...