Apple s first smart ring patent came to light in October 2015 in a Patently Apple report titled "Apple introduces us to the Apple Ring in all its Glory." Since that time we ve covered several other smart ring patents from Apple that our report links to. Today, on the last patent application day of 2022, the US Patent & Trademark Office published yet another smart ring patent. Future smart rings will primarily be used as a controller device .
On Thursday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a wearable self-mixing interferometry (SMI) ring that could be used to sense physiological conditions of a user, such as a heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure and more.
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to wearable self-mixing interferometry (SMI) ring used to sense physiological conditions of a user, such as a heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure and more.