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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2023
Filed:
May. 05, 2022
Applicant:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Inventor:
Michael Karl Sacha, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Assignee:
Starkey Laboratories, Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/1117 (2013.01); A61B 5/02427 (2013.01); A61B 5/6815 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ear-wearable device includes a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor. One or more processors of the ear-wearable device are configured to determine, based on sample values of a PPG signal generated by the PPG sensor, whether a user of the ear-wearable device has fallen.