US Patent Issued to BBI Medical Innovations on Sept. 23 for "Perfusion and oxygenation measurement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,572, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to BBI Medical Innovations LLC (Los Angeles).

"Perfusion and oxygenation measurement" was invented by Martin F. Burns (Los Angeles) and Graham O. Ross (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for evaluating the flow of blood in damaged or healing tissue. The present disclosure also provides methods of identifying a patient at the onset of risk of pressure ulcer or at risk of the onset of pressure ulcer, and treating the patient with anatomy-specific clinical intervention selected based on perfusion or blood oxygenation values, or a c...