US Patent Issued to FITBIT on Aug. 25 for "Wearable computing device having a biometric sensor electrode positioned on a display screen cover and operable as an antenna" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,283, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FITBIT LLC (San Francisco).

"Wearable computing device having a biometric sensor electrode positioned on a display screen cover and operable as an antenna" was invented by Kevin Li (San Diego), Teemu Taneli Raafael Kaiponen (San Diego), Pieris Berreitter (San Francisco) and Ritu Verma (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable computing device is provided. The wearable computing device includes a housing and a printed circuit board at least partially disposed within the housing. The wearable computing device includes a display screen electrically coupled to the printed circuit board. ...