US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 7 for "Fall risk assessment for a user" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,796, issued on July 7, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Fall risk assessment for a user" was invented by Boyan Bonev (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jung Ook Hong (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for assessing a fall risk of a user is provided. The computer-implemented method includes obtaining data indicative of the user engaging in a fall risk activity. The computer-implemented method includes adjusting a fall detection threshold of a wearable computing device worn by the user based, at least in part, on the data indicative of the user engaging in the fall risk activity. The...