ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,046, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Hemodynamic parameter estimation" was invented by Frank Verbakel (Helmond, Netherlands), Rohan Joshi (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sergei Yuryevich Shulepov (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Krishnamoorthy Palanisamy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deriving one or more hemodynamic parameters based on blood-velocity and arterial diameter measures, each sampled recurrently or continuously over a time period to obtain for each a data series spanning a time window (i.e. a waveform). Additionally, a radial blood velocity profil...