ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,796, issued on July 28, was assigned to FITBIT INC. (San Francisco).

"Wearable ECG and EDA with multi-lead and single-lead connections" was invented by Lindsey Michelle Sunden (San Francisco), Jens Mitchell Nielsen (San Francisco), Anthony Zahi Faranesh (Oakland, Calif.), Man-Chi Liu (San Francisco), Jaclyn Leverett Wasson (Alameda, Calif.) and Kyung Nim Noh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellness tracking device includes a plurality of electrodes to receive biometric data from a user. The electrodes may receive an input from the user and transmit information, such as electrical data related to the heart or skin cond...