ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,530, issued on June 17, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Health state monitoring device and method" was invented by Enrico Rosario Alessi (Catania, Italy), Marco Leo (Milan), Luca Gandolfi (Milan), Fabio Passaniti (Syracuse, Italy) and Marco Castellano (Pavia, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for monitoring the health state is made in a chip including a semiconductor die integrating an electric potential sensor and a cardiac parameter determination unit. The potential sensor is configured to detect potential variations on the body of a living being and associated with a heart rhythm and...