US Patent Issued to FITBIT on March 4 for "Calibration of pulse-transit-time to blood pressure model using multiple physiological sensors and various methods for blood pressure variation" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,424, issued on March 4, was assigned to FITBIT INC. (San Francisco).

"Calibration of pulse-transit-time to blood pressure model using multiple physiological sensors and various methods for blood pressure variation" was invented by Alexandros A. Pantelopoulos (El Cerrito, Calif.), Thomas Samuel Elliot (San Francisco) and Logan Niehaus (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices and methods for estimating blood pressure, which implement a pulse-transit-time-based blood pressure model that can be calibrated. Some implementations provide reliable and user friendly means for calibrating the blood pressure...