Apple Watch, the technological watch from the Cupertino company, allows you to measure Atrial Fibrillation through an electrocardiogram. A highly technological system that at the moment only the Tim Cook company is allowing you to do through a smartwatch and without any
accessory.
Precisely the technology and its patents used by the bitten apple company would be the cause of a lawsuit by a New York doctor, who would have requested the authorship of these technologies.
Apple Watch and atrial fibrillation: the case of the patent
The subject of the dispute concerns a patent (No. 7.020.514) filed in the USA on March 28, 2007, in the name of an American doctor, Dr. Joseph Wiesel.
The patent in question takes the name of ” Methods and apparatus for identifying Atrial Fibrillation ” and allows through the so-called ” plethysmography ” to understand the presence or absence of Atrial Fibrillation through a photoelectric cell and a light source.
A method that is used by Apple with its Watch that basically does nothing but use green LED lights combined with light-sensitive photodiodes by detecting the amount of blood flowing in the wrist in a given instant.
In detail, by flashing the green LED light hundreds of times a second, Apple Watch calculates through the algorithm how many times the user’s heart actually beats per minute and also the heart rate. The American doctor’s patent appears to be the same as that used by Apple with its Watch.
Here is that Dr. Wiesel intends to bring back the properties of his patent on Apple and to obtain the royalty payment and the compensation for the time spent from the marketing of the Watch of the Cupertino company, capable of precisely measuring the Fibrillation Atrial.
In this case, the doctor claims the authorship of the patent and its use by Apple since September 2017, and even before the fourth generation of Apple Watch was put on sale.
This is because the American doctor allegedly informed the Cupertino company of the infringement of his patent through a series of complaint letters. ” The technology patented by Dr. Wiesel is a fundamental part of the Apple Watch and is used to stimulate customer demand, ” reads one of the documents presented at the Cupertino house. For the moment, Apple has not released any press release regarding the matter.
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