ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,816, issued on July 28.

"Application based determination of vital signs and a physiological state with application based action initiation" was invented by Jesse Ohayon (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, application program, smart device, and computer system may capture images of a body part of a patient, determine one or more vital signs of the patient by image processing optionally assisted by a machine learning model, determine a physiological state for one or more of the vital signs with a computational model generated by another machine learning model, and initiate a communication with a medical professional'...