US Patent Issued to ROCKLEY PHOTONICS on Sept. 15 for "Optical sensor module" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,827, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ROCKLEY PHOTONICS Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Optical sensor module" was invented by Kate LeeAnn Bechtel (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and James McMillan (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device includes a first optical sensor module, the first optical sensor module including: an image sensor configured to receive light from biological tissue; a photodiode configured to receive light from the tissue; a light source comprising a laser and being configured to illuminate, through the tissue, each of the image sensor and the photodiode, a distance between the image ...