ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,391, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Willow Laboratories Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Physiological test credit method" was invented by Marcelo M. Lamego (Coto De Caza, Calif.) and Jeroen Poeze (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physiological test credit method determines if test credits are available to the monitor and checks if a Wi-Fi connection is available. If test credits are less than a test credit threshold, the monitor connects to a test credit server, processes server commands so as to download test credits and disconnects from the server. In various embodiments, the monitor is challenged to break a serve...