ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,441, issued on July 22, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).
"Blood pressure and autoregulation monitoring" was invented by Andre Antunes (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Paul S. Addison (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Dean Montgomery (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a method includes receiving a signal indicative of a blood pressure of a patient and identifying at least one first portion of the signal comprising a first characteristic of the signal exceeding a first threshold. The method also includes identifying at least one first portion of the signal comprising a second characteristi...