Last week the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded Apple a patent for a “seamlessly embedded heart rate monitor” that the company’s R&D department envisions using for authentication, personalization, and other features on imagined future devices. Apple has filed for a number of digital health-related patents over the years, MobiHealthNews rounded up a few way back in 2010. The list back then included sensor-laden clothing, peel-and-stick baby monitors, advanced activity sensing, an earbud for tracking various biometrics, as well as the filing for the patent Apple secured this week.

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