US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Wearable computer with fitness machine connectivity for improved activity monitoring using caloric expenditure models" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,533, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wearable computer with fitness machine connectivity for improved activity monitoring using caloric expenditure models" was invented by Bharath Narasimha Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jennifer Strasser (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Umamahesh Srinivas (Milpitas, Calif.), Kevin Sheridan (Menlo Park, Calif.), James Ochs (San Francisco), Vinay R. Majjigi (Mountain View, Calif.), Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram (Santa Clara, Calif.), Olivier Humblet (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Jay Kriz Blahnik (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method comprises: establishing,...