US Patent Issued to CorRen Medical on March 25 for "Steerable wearable doppler ultrasound velocimeter" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,102, issued on March 25, was assigned to CorRen Medical Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Steerable wearable doppler ultrasound velocimeter" was invented by David Lerner (St. Paul, Minn.), Raymond Paul Oberleitner (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and David J. Haskvitz (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable Doppler blood flowmeter can be used with an inflatable cuff to measure blood flow, such as for assessing peripheral artery disease (PAD). The present approach can include techniques such as providing or using a wearable acoustic Doppler blood flowmeter, without requiring the intricate manipulation of a handheld Doppler probe. The s...