ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,583, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Heart rate measurement using adaptive harmonics filtering" was invented by Jenshan Lin (Gainesville, Fla.), Linda Frances Hayward (Gainesville, Fla.) and Tien-yu Huang (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are provided for accurate heart rate measurement. In one example, a method includes determining respiration displacement from radar-measured cardiorespiratory motion data; adjusting notch depths of a data filter based upon the respiration displacement; and identifying a heart rate from data fil...