ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,436, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ORPYX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"System and method for synthesizing sensor readings" was invented by Samuel Carl William Blades (Victoria, Canada), Omar Suleman (Calgary, Canada) and Patrick Dobbie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and computer program product for synthesizing sensor data in a wearable device. Sensor readings are obtained from a plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors arranged in a first predetermined pattern, where the first predetermined pattern maps each of the plurality of sensors to respective locations on the wear...