ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,107, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Neola Medical AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Method and device for offset compensation" was invented by Martin Hansson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden) and Sara Bergsten (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for rescaling a signal to remove an absorption offset from an optical measurement. During a first mode a scaling factor is obtained from measurements on a reference object which is then applied during a second mode when measuring on a measurement object."

The patent was filed on Jan. 27, 2022, under Application No. 18/262,550.

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