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by Hippocrates 879 days ago
They rattle off a bunch of other "physiological parameters" like glucose, hemoglobin and "other". I wonder how many of these have been demonstrated via their technology vs. are theoretically possible (patent trolling)? I could be wrong but I thought non-invasive blood glucose has not been cracked yet, yet seems to be covered by the patent.

Also curious as these appear to be dated in 2021 but the Apple Watch 6 with pulse oximeter came out in 2020. Unless there is something different about the "latest" watches.
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kube-system 879 days ago
Patents on things that can exist but don't work well are valid. If they're unsafe, inaccurate, unreliable, etc, that's a problem for commercial viability, but not an issue for getting a patent.
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Hippocrates 879 days ago
Yeah I was just looking into this and apparently you can even patent things that don't work at all, but may be asked for a working model at some point in the future. Thats surprising, because I could easily see the sense in patenting slightly futuristic ideas with a plausible mechanism and then scrambling to create a model if and when it becomes economically enticing.
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kube-system 879 days ago
A patent could be invalidated if it's something that can't be made, so you can't patent futuristic ideas. Or at least, if you try, and someone calls you on it, it's invalid.

But you can patent inventions that do exist but are crap. Many inventions are crap, and that's okay. If you have a bad invention, you still have an invention.

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