US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on June 2 for "Blood pressure monitoring via in-ear device" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,438, issued on June 2, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Blood pressure monitoring via in-ear device" was invented by Morteza Khaleghimeybodi (Bothell, Wash.), Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner (Redmond, Wash.) and John Rumsfeld (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-ear device (IED) of a wearable system captures audio data from within the ear canal of a user indicative of the user's heartbeat. The IED when worn occludes the user's ear canal, causing amplification of low frequency sounds due to the occlusion effect, and improving the ability of the acoustic sensor to detect the user's heartbe...