US Patent Issued to Masimo on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for assessment of placement of a detector of a physiological monitoring device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,293, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for assessment of placement of a detector of a physiological monitoring device" was invented by Ammar Al-Ali (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and Sean Devlin (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-invasive physiological sensor system implemented as a smart watch or other wearable device includes an emitter for emitting light and a detector for collecting light after the light interacts with a tissue of a wearer. The system can measure light intensity at one or more radial distances to estimate attenuation parameter values that can b...