ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,141, issued on July 1, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Hydrophobic materials in a medical sensor" was invented by Derek L. Moody (Longmont, Colo.), Jacob Dove (Lafayette, Colo.), Linden A. Reustle (Milliken, Colo.), Sarah L. Hayman (Boulder, Colo.) and Shai Fleischer (Modiin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring sensor having a communication interface, through which the patient monitoring sensor can communicate with a monitor is provided. The patient monitoring sensor includes a light-emitting diode (LED) communicatively coupled to the communication interface and a detector, communicatively coupl...