ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,301, issued on Aug. 18.

"Digital health system for the continuous quantification of physiological biomarkers, biological regulators, and analytes in real-time using optical quantification" was invented by Alfred H. Bedell Jr. (Lansdowne, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device for the quantification of regulatory substances produced in the body, such as analytes and hormones, is disclosed. The wearable device includes contact sensors formed on an outer portion of a casing of the wearable device, and those contact sensors are positioned to contact skin of a wearer of the device and configured to measure galvanic skin resp...