US Patent Issued to Masimo on Feb. 11 for "Nose sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,257, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Nose sensor" was invented by Samir Shreim (Irvine, Calif.), Vikrant Sharma (Santa Ana, Calif.), Philip Perea (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Jennifer Rines (Carlsbad, Calif.), Clinton Robins (Lake Forest, Calif.), Chad Eichele (Lake Forest, Calif.), Yassir Kamel Abdul-Hafiz (Irvine, Calif.) and Sean Devlin (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitor can noninvasively measure a physiological parameter using sensor data from a nose sensor configured to be secured to a nose of the patient. The nose sensor can include an emitter and a detector. The detect...