US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 18 for "Method and apparatus for non-invasively measuring blood circulatory hemoglobin" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,507, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Method and apparatus for non-invasively measuring blood circulatory hemoglobin" was invented by Paul B. Benni (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of non-invasively determining a blood circulatory hemoglobin value for a subject using a near-infrared spectrophotometric (NIRS) sensing device is provided. The method includes: a) non-invasively sensing tissue of the subject using the NIRS sensing device at about a time T1, and determining at least one NIRS tissue totalHb value; b) acquiring at least one circulatory blo...