ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,205, issued on March 18, was assigned to FITBIT INC. (San Francisco).
"Position detection of blood pressure device" was invented by Xi Zhang (Daly City, Calif.), Keith Adam Wong (San Francisco), Andrew Larsen Axley (Mountain View, Calif.), Dan Stefan Tudose (Bucharest, Romania) and Conor Joseph Heneghan (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosure pertains to detecting a position of a blood pressure measurement device. An inflatable bladder of the blood pressure measurement device defines, at least in part, a pressurizable volume. The inflatable bladder may be inflated to pressurize a user's appendage...