ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,277, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).
"Body-mountable temperature monitor accounting for ambient conditions" was invented by Roxana Heitz (Mountain View, Calif.), William Biederman (San Francisco) and Sean Frick (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring an internal body temperature of a patient includes detecting a skin temperature of the patient using a temperature sensor in a body-mountable temperature monitor attached to the patient; calculating, using the temperature sensor, a heat flux associated with the body-mountable temperature monitor based on selectively activ...