Monday, January 13, 2014

Apple gets a Patent for a Seamlessly Embedded Heart Rate Monitor

Apple was awarded a patent for a seamlessly embedded heart rate monitor within in an electronic device (an iPhone, maybe?). The patent was granted on December 24, although the the application was made in January 2009. The patent describes an electronic device with an embedded sensor to detect cardiac activity and cardiac electrical signals.
However, Apple is not interested in becoming a FDA-regulated entity, so the company’s purpose is to use the heart rate as a way to authenticate a user’s identity or to determine the user’s mood from the cardiac signals and provide data related to the user’s mood. Anyway, it is not inconceivable that there could be medical applications of this heart rate monitor by third parties, already there are companies using the iPhone to build cardiac monitors.

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