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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sameer Pandya, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adam T. Clavelle, San Francisco, CA (US);
Erik G. de Jong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael B. Wittenberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tobias J. Harrison-Noonan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Melcher, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zhipeng Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Steven C. Roach, San Francisco, CA (US);
Steven P. Cardinali, Campbell, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An electronic device, such as a watch, has a housing to which a carrier is attached. The carrier has a first surface interior to the electronic device, and a second surface exterior to the electronic device. A set of electrodes is deposited on the exterior surface of the carrier. An additional electrode is operable to be contacted by a finger of a user of the electronic device while the first electrode is positioned against skin of the user. The additional electrode may be positioned on a user-rotatable crown of the electronic device, on a button of the electronic device, or on another surface of the housing of the electronic device. A processor of the electronic device is operable to determine a biological parameter of the user based on voltages at the electrodes. The biological parameter may be an electrocardiogram.