Despite the special health features of this Apple Watch for measuring heart rate and detecting atrial fibrillation - Link - And other features, except that Apple will not stop developing and harnessing it to monitor everything possible for the health of its users. In a new patent for the Apple Watch, it says that it will contain a new sensor capable of accurately measuring blood pressure without the need for additional dedicated accessories such as a dedicated bracelet to measure blood pressure. Follow the article for more details.


One of the health-related features of the Apple Watch was its ability to measure heart rate by monitoring the number of beats per minute, and it became very popular and we have already read news that such a feature has saved many lives. But these capabilities remain limited, as the watch was not able to accurately measure blood pressure because this requires more sensitive sensors, which requires placing these sensors precisely on the arteries or veins, through which the pressure is required to be measured.

While you can get blood pressure measuring apps on the Apple Watch, they require additional devices, such as a dedicated blood pressure bracelet, that wrap completely around the wrist. But this patent describes the way to work without this dedicated bracelet, but also helps to achieve accurate positioning and data.

The presence of these sensors is important because it will increase the number of people who will be able to check their blood pressure, and this will be a useful indicator in monitoring potential health problems, and thus the demand for an Apple Watch, as they do not have to buy anything else, but this is a set of benefits. Medicines that come from recording these data regularly.

What Apple is proposing is for the watch itself to acquire a set of sensors around the user's wrist and target some arteries and measure pressure through them, and the work of these sensors will be enhanced by a combination of programs in order to provide accurate readings.

The patent did not explicitly mention the Apple Watch, and it used a loose phrase, which is "a device that she wears on the wrist." It may be in order to retain the rights of this patent on any similar device, or it will produce a separate product for the watch for this purpose, and the latter is excluded.

 What do you think of this patent? How will it affect users' health or Apple's sales? Let us know in the comments.

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