US Patent Issued to HONOR DEVICE on July 7 for "Heart rate monitoring method and apparatus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,830, issued on July 7, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Heart rate monitoring method and apparatus" was invented by Xiaowu Zhang (Beijing), Danhong Li (Beijing) and Haoxuan Di (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application disclose a heart rate monitoring method and apparatus. A harmonic weight value is calculated according to a PPG signal, the harmonic weight value is then used to determine a confidence of a heart rate, and a heart rate value is output only when the confidence is high. The method includes: determining that a wearer of the electronic device is a living body; obtaining ...