US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on July 28 for "Techniques for using inward-facing eye-tracking cameras of a head-worn device to measure heart rate, and systems and methods using those techniques" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,774, issued on July 28, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for using inward-facing eye-tracking cameras of a head-worn device to measure heart rate, and systems and methods using those techniques" was invented by Brian Keith Cabral (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael John Toksvig (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for monitoring biometric information. In one aspect, a method includes (i) capturing, via an inward-facing camera of an artificial-reality headset, a plurality of images of a region of a face of ...