US Patent Issued to Google on June 30 for "Sleep tracking and vital sign monitoring using low power radio waves" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,271, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sleep tracking and vital sign monitoring using low power radio waves" was invented by Dongeek Shin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brandon Barbello (Mountain View, Calif.), Shwetak Patel (Seattle), Anupam Pathak (San Carlos, Calif.) and Michael Dixon (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for performing radar-based measurement of vital signs. Waveform data may be received then filtered of data indicative of static objects to obtain motion-indicative waveform data. The motion-indicative waveform data may be analyzed to determine one or ...