Biometric data sensor company Valencell has been granted 12 new patents in 2015, adding several monitoring methods and noninvasive analysis techniques to their portfolio.
The patents were granted in the United States, Europe, and Japan. In total, they include United States patents for a method of physiological monitoring, a biometric monitor housing and a biometric monitor, wearable light-guiding devices for physiological monitoring, and various wearable monitoring devices incorporating light guides and sensors. There were also one patent filed in Japan and one in Europe.
“Over the past two decades, numerous fitness and health assessments have been developed and validated by researchers across the world, but the big challenge has been getting accurate biometric information into these models through devices that consumers already wear…” said Steven LeBoeuf, president and co-founder of Valencell. “These new patents further illustrate our technology’s ability to track key biometric measurements in wearables of all shapes and sizes with the accuracy needed to make real health assessments.”
Valencell’s flagship technology is its PerformTek sensors, which it uses to let wearables accurately measure even weak blood flow signals during physical activity. From these signals, the wearables can determine heart rate, oxygen, resting heart rate, calories burned, cardiac efficiency, and other health and fitness applications.
These 12 patents bring Valencell’s total intellectual property portfolio to 29. The company also has more than 60 patents pending.