ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,173, issued on April 14, was assigned to iRhythm Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Wearable monitor" was invented by Shena Hae Park (San Francisco), Mark J. Day (San Francisco), Frank Garcia (Redwood City, Calif.), Hung H. Ho (San Francisco), Nicholas Hughes (Orinda, Calif.), Genaro S. Sepulveda (San Francisco) and Yuriko Tamura (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a wearable monitor device and methods and systems for using such a device. In certain embodiments, the wearable monitor records cardiac data from a mammal and extracts particular features of interest. These features are the...