ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,238, issued on July 7, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Photoplethysmography (PPG) based control method and electronic device" was invented by Xiaowu Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Danhong Li (Shenzhen, China) and Haoxuan Di (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a photoplethysmography (PPG) based control method and an electronic device and relate to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes: using, by the electronic device, the plurality of LEDs to emit a light signal corresponding to a first current; using, by the electronic device, at least one of the...