ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,580, issued on June 3, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Hemoglobin display and patient treatment" was invented by Ammar Al-Ali (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Massi Joe E. Kiani (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and Michael O'Reilly (Dana Point, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes embodiments of a patient monitoring system and methods that include the measure and display of hemoglobin statistics. In an embodiment, total hemoglobin trending is displayed over a period of time. Statistics can include frequency domain analysis, which may be unique for each patient monitored. The total hemoglobin tren...