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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Bothell, WA (US);
Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner, Redmond, WA (US);
John Rumsfeld, San Francisco, CA (US);
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An in-ear device (IED) of a wearable system captures audio data from within the ear canal of a user indicative of the user's heartbeat. The IED when worn occludes the user's ear canal, causing amplification of low frequency sounds due to the occlusion effect, and improving the ability of the acoustic sensor to detect the user's heartbeat sounds. The wearable system classifies the audio data to identify portions of the audio data corresponding to a first heart sound and a second heart sound, which correspond to different portions of the heartbeat of the user. The wearable system estimates a blood pressure level of the user based upon the identified heart sounds.