ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,779, issued on March 17, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Techniques for detecting atrial fibrillation" was invented by Tuomas Viljami Kentta (Liminka, Finland), Steve Kent (San Francisco) and Xi Zhang (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for atrial fibrillation (AFib) detection are described. A method may include acquiring physiological data collected from a user via a wearable ring device, the physiological data including temperature data and motion data, and identifying that a measurement trigger condition for AFib has been satisfied based on the temperature data satisfyi...