US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY on Sept. 8 for "Wearable device and method of detecting atrial fibrillation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,809, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COOPERATION GROUP OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Wearable device and method of detecting atrial fibrillation" was invented by Soyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinseok Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sang Kyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongbin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hong Soon Rhee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting atrial fibrillation includes receiving a photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal from a first sensor of a wearable device, detecting a heart ...