ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,007, issued on July 8, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Wearable health monitoring device" was invented by Luke J. Gosink (Richland, Wash.), Sean McNeil (Richland, Wash.), Juan M. Brandi-Lozano (Richland, Wash.), Ryan Williams (Richland, Wash.), Joseph R. Bruce (Richland, Wash.) and Jonathon D. McCall (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable patient device is provided that includes one or more sensors. The one or more sensors can record one or both of ECG information or phonocardiographic information. The sensor information can be used to determine the blood pressure of a monitored indi...