US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 30 for "Integrated flexible sensor for blood pressure measurements" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,901, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Integrated flexible sensor for blood pressure measurements" was invented by Joseph R. Lee (Belmont, Calif.), Joseph M. Schmitt (Cupertino, Calif.), Derek Young (Fremont, Calif.), Pranay Jain (Cambridge, Mass.), Ali M. Amin (Cupertino, Calif.), Wegene Tadele (San Francisco) and Zijing Zeng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to a blood pressure measurement device including a cuff that is operative to wrap around a limb of a user, a bladder coupled to the cuff and operative to compress the limb of the user when inflated, and a...