US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Blood pressure monitoring utilizing pressure wave velocity and calibration correction with near infrared imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,984, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Blood pressure monitoring utilizing pressure wave velocity and calibration correction with near infrared imaging" was invented by Paul Wickboldt (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Andreas Suess (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device has a first and second PPD sensor configured for placement over an artery; a camera between the first and second PPD sensors; and a processor having memory with firmware for determining pulse transit time (PTT) between the PPD sensors, and determines blood pressure (BP) therefrom using a calibrated conv...