US Patent Issued to Apple on May 26 for "System and method for background sensing of peripheral oxygen saturation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,958, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for background sensing of peripheral oxygen saturation" was invented by Aditya Dua (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Dashiell R. Bodington (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher J. Brouse (Saratoga, Calif.), Sankalita Saha (Saratoga, Calif.) and Mai Tuyet Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A characteristic (e.g., SpO2) of a user's physiological signals can be estimated using background sensing with a pulse oximeter. For example, measurements by the optical sensor may be made when one or more criteria are satisfied that indicate conditions for a r...