ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,394, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for user recognition based on oxygen saturation" was invented by Jae Min Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung Hoon Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung Woo Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Yun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jin Woo Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing user recognition may include: a first sensor configured to measure health information from a user; a second sensor configured to measure a pulse wave signal from the user; and a processor configured to obtain ox...