US Patent Issued to Medtronic Monitoring on Aug. 5 for "System and method for non-invasive monitoring of hemoglobin" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,768, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Medtronic Monitoring Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for non-invasive monitoring of hemoglobin" was invented by Rodolphe Katra (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of non-invasively monitoring hemoglobin concentration includes providing incident light to patient tissue at a first excitation wavelength. The method further includes monitoring a first emission response at a first emission wavelength, wherein the first emission wavelength is selected to correspond with a maximum of the emission response, and monitoring a second emission response at a second emission wave...