US Patent Issued to OXIWEAR on Sept. 8 for "Ear-wearable oxygen monitoring system" (Virginia, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,798, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to OXIWEAR INC. (Arlington, Va.).

"Ear-wearable oxygen monitoring system" was invented by Shavini Fernando (Arlington, Va.), George Donald Beckstein III (Buffalo, N.Y.), Ben Salthouse (San Francisco) and Keeline Wilcox (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for monitoring an oxygen saturation level of a wearer includes a first body portion, a second body portion, and a connection member. The first body portion contains a processor, a memory operably coupled to the processor, at least one light-emitting diode, and at least one optical sensor configured to detect, during operati...