The litany of sensors on the bottom of your Apple Watch Series 10 is what makes it so good at being a body-health tracking device. There's that blood oxygen sensor (although you can't use it in the U.S.), heart rate sensor, ECG — Apple is no stranger to putting health-based tech in its devices to give you a more holistic view of your overall health. Now there's evidence that it's putting that expertise into something a little smaller than an Apple Watch.
Head over to the US patents viewer and search for "patent 20240315584", and you'll find a new patent that relates to "Systems And Methods For Detecting Heart Pathologies". It's a dense old document, filled with loads of difficult-to-decipher technical data and intimidating-sounding language, but there are a couple of key points that illustrate a picture of the idea Apple has.
