US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 25 for "Estimating a metabolic rate of a user wearing a wearable computing device" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,323, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Estimating a metabolic rate of a user wearing a wearable computing device" was invented by Nolan Andrew Miller (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for estimating a metabolic rate of a user includes obtaining pulse oximetry data for the user for a period of time. The method includes determining a rate of decline in oxygen saturation of blood of the user that is associated with a breathing rate of the user for the period of time based, at least in part, on the pulse oximetry data. The method includes estimating the metabolic rate of the user for t...