US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Nov. 3 for "Device and method for acquiring heart rate" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,492, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Device and method for acquiring heart rate" was invented by Yonggwon Jeon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), JeeEun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kangin Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Euichul Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kunyoung Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a device and a method for obtaining a heart rate, the device for obtaining a heart rate may include: a processor; and a memory device, and obtain a first band image and a second band image in different bands...