US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on Aug. 11 for "System and method for continuous atrial fibrillation detection via PPG to ECG signal translation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,341, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"System and method for continuous atrial fibrillation detection via PPG to ECG signal translation" was invented by Mostafa El-Khamy (San Diego), Khuong Vo (Irvine, Calif.) and Yoojin Choi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for AFib detection using ECG signals generated from monitored PPG signals. A method includes receiving PPG signals of a user measured by a PPG sensor; translating the measured PPG signals into ECG signals using a dynamic model; analyzing the translated ECG signals using an AFib detection mod...