ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,842, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).
"Detainee health alert device" was invented by Malik R. Little (Glen Burnie, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A health alert device includes a physiological sensor and processing circuitry. The physiological sensor captures physiological data, including heart rate and blood oxygen data, of a detainee. The processing circuitry repeatedly receives the physiological data, calculates a health metric parameter based on a combination of the physiological data, determines a health metric baseline based on a series of health metric parameters determined ove...