Health technology start-up Omni MedSci, in a patent lawsuit filed Friday, alleges Apple incorporated infringing technology in its Apple Watch heart rate sensor after reviewing patent-pending specificatis Omni's founding and CTO Dr. Mohammed N. Islam.
Lodged with the Eastern Texas District Court, which has jurisdicti over the past few years. Specifically, the patents-in-suit, as granted, describe methods of measuring various parameters of a user's blood using LED-based sensors.
Invented by Islam and Assigned to Omni, U.S. Patent Nos. 9,651,533 and 9,757,040 were granted in 2017, while U.S. Patent Nos. 9,861,286 and 9,885,698 were issued in 2018.
Each patent refers to a device that uses a light source, in some cases near-infrared LED arrays, algside a receiver module to capture n-invasive blood measurements. Apple Watch …
