ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,091, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Adaptable camera-based contactless SpO2 detection" was invented by Li Zhu (Saratoga, Calif.), Qijia Shao (New York), Mohsin Ahmed (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Korosh Vatanparvar (San Jose, Calif.), Migyeong Gwak (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nafiul Rashid (San Jose, Calif.), Jungmok Bae (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jilong Kuang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jun Gao (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes recording, by a camera of a client device, a video of a region of a first user's skin and estimating, from the record...