US Patent Issued to Oura Health on Nov. 3 for "Illness detection based on temperature data measured via a wearable ring device" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,515, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).

"Illness detection based on temperature data measured via a wearable ring device" was invented by Gerald Pho (Somerville, Mass.), Kirstin Aschbacher (San Francisco), Harpreet Rai (San Francisco), Michael Chapp (Lafayette, Calif.), Ben Smarr (San Francisco) and Ashley Mason (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for illness detection are described. A method may include identifying baseline temperature data associated with a user based on temperature data collected from the user via a wearable device throughout a first time interv...