Oura Seeks To Block US Sales Of Ultrahuman Ring Pro

Shoppers in the United States could soon face a choice about which smart ring they can buy. Oura has asked a federal court in Texas to bar sales of Ultrahuman's Ring Pro, the redesigned device now on sale in the US market. The Finland-based company filed the complaint on October 23, 2026, along with a request for monetary damages.

The complaint alleges that the Ring Pro infringes two Oura patents, one covering design and one covering internal components, according to a post on Oura's blog. One patent, numbered 12,769,363, was granted two days before the complaint was filed and appears to broadly cover a smart ring housing with a battery and specific internal parts. Ultrahuman builds the US version of the Ring Pro at a plant in Plano, Texas, operated by SVTronics under Ultrahuman's direction, and Oura named SVTronics as a defendant.

The dispute follows an earlier fight over a different model. The US International Trade Commission ruled last year that Ultrahuman's Ring Air violated several Oura patents, a decision that led to a ban on US sales of that product; it remains available in Europe and other markets. Ultrahuman, based in India, then redesigned the Ring Pro to avoid Oura's intellectual property in the American market, and US Customs and Border Protection approved the redesign earlier this year.

Oura disputes the effect of those changes. "After it was found to be infringing Oura patents, Ultrahuman recently introduced a modified version of its ring, claiming its redesign no longer infringed our patents. That claim is false," the company wrote, adding that the new ring "still incorporates many of Oura's patented innovations and continues to infringe our intellectual property." Ultrahuman has said it will contest the action and that the Ring Pro remains on sale in the US.

A spokesperson for Ultrahuman said the redesign "has already been through independent review in the United States," and noted that Customs and Border Protection concluded in an earlier proceeding that the Ring Pro did not infringe the patent considered at that time. The spokesperson said Oura "has now chosen to assert different patents, including one that issued just two days before this lawsuit was filed," and that the company would "defend our position vigorously." Oura is also in a patent dispute with Samsung that began in 2024, when Samsung sued first over the Galaxy Ring; that case remained active as of this summer.

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