ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,888, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Multi-site noninvasive measurement of a physiological parameter" was invented by Vikrant Sharma (Santa Ana, Calif.), Philip Perea (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Prashanth Iyengar (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 different measurement sites on a patient. The patient monitor can combine all sensor data from different measurement sites into a raw or minimally processed data form to generate a single, robust measurement of the physiological parameter. An optical sens...