US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on May 5 for "Integrated circuit for photoplethysmography (PPG)" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,386, issued on May 5, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit for photoplethysmography (PPG)" was invented by Manoj Bikumandla (Union City, Calif.), Andrew Matthew Bardagjy (Seattle) and Ajay Bikumandla (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises: a first die comprising one or more image sensors; a second die comprising one or more light emitters; one or more through package vias (TPVs), wherein a TPV of the one or more TPVs is configured to allow light emitted from at least one light emitter of the one or more light emitters to pass th...