US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Robust detection of a change in a physiological metric" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,450, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Robust detection of a change in a physiological metric" was invented by Katherine Niehaus (San Francisco), Adeeti V. Ullal (Los Altos, Calif.) and William R. Powers III (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for determining a change in a physiological metric over a target period of time. A plurality of data sets may be used to generate a plurality of contextual signals. Each of these contextual signals may be associated with a different activity context, and may be used to generate a plurality of instances o...