ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,129, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Sensor joint wrapping in a medical sensor" was invented by Jacob Dove (Lafayette, Colo.), Sarah L Hayman (Boulder, Colo.), Derek L. Moody (Lafayette, Colo.), Linden A. Reustle (Milliken, 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 cou...