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Hopefully Apple patents their new design this time so Masimo doesn’t steal it again. This patent Apple violated came out after the series 6 and just blatantly copied Apple’s design.

Not surprising. Apple just inflates prices for SSD and RAM.

Wonder if these could be charged to Vision Insurance or HSA.

This is so obviously a bad take by the government. Exactly why we don’t trust politicians to make regulatory decisions. Interoperability of some core services could be a goal, but not with Apple’s private backend servers.

entropys said:

All articles I have read fail to specify exactly what patents Apple is supposed to have infringed. More interested in the controversy I suppose.

From what I can sort of gather, it is a general patent applying to blood oxygen sensors being on the wrist. Which tbh is a joke of a patent. Happy for more details in the next article please.

Masimo is a very large company. Whining about how much more Apple Pay’s its former staff is tragically sad, as Masimo clearly weren’t paying them what they were worth.

You have the gist of it. The patents describe a sensor attached to a wrist mounted computer and some basic properties of its appearance (much of it cosmetic or unrelated to the workings of the sensor). There is nothing about the algorithm. The actual patents are: 10,945,648 (claims 12, 24, and 30) and 10,912,502 (claims 22 and 28). The other claims were struck down. You can look up at patents.google.com patent search. The claims are at the end of the patent filing (last couple pages usually).

Apple probably plans to update their hardware then counter with their patents rather then enter a business relationship. This may be the end of Misamo’s smart watch ambitions if Apple sues it to death.