Last week, Apple introduced possible future Apple Watch Bands with embedded micro-machined ultrasonic transducers (MUTs) to detect touch, gestures, physiological health signals, and transfer data between devices via ultrasonic waves. Today, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that reveals a second Apple engineering team working on an alternative Apple Watch band with embedded electrodes which .
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a series of health related patent applications from Apple. The first two patents (01 and 02) covered different aspects of future blood pressure devices that Apple has been working on for at least 5 or 6 years. In this third health related patent, Apple takes another angle by integrating or weaving, health sensors directly into an Apple Watch band, headband, garments and more.
Up until this morning, Patently Apple has covered 47 smart fabric related Apple patents and today we re covering smart fabric patent #48 titled "Fabric Seam With Electrical Components." Future smart fabric containing components and sensors, including advanced biometrics, may be integrated into smart clothing, computers, furniture and much more. The two Apple product designers listed on this patent are high profile. One worked on Nike s Flyknit Technology while the other has worked in the entertainment industry for 30 years working on films like Westworld and Terminator: Genisys.
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to a future smart fabric band used as a health band that could integrate a group of sensors for measuring blood pressure, respiration rate, blood oxygen, and ECG. The band could be used with an Apple Watch and possibly in a future mixed reality headset device.
Today the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that relates to smart clothing and accessories like a stretchable health band that could measure health vitals and even provide another way, beyond Apple Watch, for taking an ECG and may in fact work in concert with Apple Watch to take more accurate ECG readings and more.