US Patent Issued to Verily Life Sciences on Nov. 4 for "Determining diaper loading using color detection or activity state" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,543, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).

"Determining diaper loading using color detection or activity state" was invented by Brian Schiffer (San Francisco), Tushar Parlikar (Somerville, Mass.) and Brian Ward Guilardi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting determining a volume of urine in an absorbent article such as a diaper. A diaper loading application obtains a first measurement of ambient light received from a photodetector while a light source is off and a second measurement from the photodetector while the light source is transmitting light on an absor...