US Patent Issued to Oura Health on Dec. 23 for "Techniques for estimating skin tone using a machine learning model" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,123, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Techniques for estimating skin tone using a machine learning model" was invented by Xi Zhang (Daly City, Calif.), Cristina Noujaim (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nina Thigpen (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for estimating skin tone using a machine learning (ML) model are described. A wearable device may transmit light using a light-emitting component, and generate a signal based on the light received at a photodetector. In some examples, a strength of the received signal may be maintained within a signal strength band...