Patent 11771343 was granted and assigned to STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC. on October, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An ear-wearable device includes a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor. One or more processors of the ear-wearable device are configured to determine, based on sample values of a PPG signal generated by the PPG sensor, whether a user of the ear-wearable device has fallen.