( July 1, 2026, 1:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a patent owner’s petition for a writ of certiorari to decide whether the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly issued a one-word affirmance of a Utah federal judge’s finding that the petitioner’s patent describing a means of measuring heart rate during exercise was directed at a patent-ineligible abstract concept....