AirPods may one day be able to detect heart pathologies as hinted by a new Apple patent filing (number US 20240315584 A1) for “Systems and Methods for Detecting Heart Pathologies.”
About the patent
Heart pathologies include a range of conditions that relate to a person’s heart, such as, for example, blood vessel disease (e.g., coronary artery disease), heart rhythm problems (e.g., arrhythmias), heart defects (e.g., congenital heart defects), heart valve disease, disease of the heart muscle, heart infection, or other heart pathologies. Apple wants its AirPods to be able to detect such things.
Summary of the patent filing
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent filing: “A device that includes a microphone may be worn in or on an ear of a user. A microphone signal generated by the microphone may be processed to determine a heart activity of a user. An indication of a heart pathology may be detected by applying a predictive algorithm to at least the heart activity.”
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