ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,963, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optical signal-quality control with accelerometer-induced signals" was invented by Sachin Prakash Nadig (San Francisco) and Chintan Trehan (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable computing device and system are provided. The wearable computing device includes a display device, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), an optical sensor(s), and a processor(s). The processor(s) is configured to obtain optical sensor data associated with a user of the wearable computing device, obtain movement data characterizing motion of the user, process th...