ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,218, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Colorado (Denver).

"Health monitoring and evaluation system" was invented by Robin Deterding (Boulder, Colo.) and Tam Vu (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present technology include a wearable physiological monitoring device, related algorithms and software that are tied to a portable electronic device for readout. The wearable device can perform real-time measurement of a number of physiological and environmental parameters including heart rate, pulse oximetry, respiration, movement, environmental particulate matter, moisture, temperatur...