ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,113, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and OMRON HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Blood pressure measurement device" was invented by Tomoyuki Nishida (Kyoto, Japan), Hirokazu Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan), Noboru Kohara (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinji Mizuno (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood pressure measurement device (1) includes a curler (5) curving in such a manner as to follow along a circumferential direction of a portion of a living body where the curler is attached, and a cuff (71), (74) including one or a plurality of bag-like structures (81), (101) stacked on one another and a bonded por...