ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,839, issued on Oct. 20.
"Methods and devices for increasing awareness to self-heartbeats" was invented by Gal Ehrlich (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention provide for methods, devices and systems, which cause relaxation through promoting heartbeat awareness. The invention relates to a method of increasing perception of self-heartbeats by a user by mounting a wearable device against a pulse point of the user and applying pressure at a level sufficient to augment transfer of arterial pulsations according to self-heartbeats."
The patent was filed on Jan. 21, 2026, under Application No. 19/454,48...