ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,058, issued on July 14, was assigned to Innovative Health Monitoring LLC (West Palm Beach, Fla.).

"System and method for monitoring a person for signs of sickness" was invented by Eric G. White (Tinton Falls, N.J.), David Robert Abrams (Jersey City, N.J.), David Eason Smith (Collegeville, Pa.) and Jessica Aletta (Manasquan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of monitoring a person to detect the onset of an illness. A monitoring unit collects biometric data and exchanges that data with a remote electronic device. Using the monitoring device, a person is monitored across multiple days. The biometric data collected ...