US Patent Issued to Podimetrics on Dec. 16 for "Apparatus and method for monitoring peripheral diabetic neuropathy and/or peripheral arterial disease" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,007, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Podimetrics Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Apparatus and method for monitoring peripheral diabetic neuropathy and/or peripheral arterial disease" was invented by Brian Petersen (Somerville, Mass.), Katherine Wood (Meredith, N.H.), David Linders (Waltham, Mass.) and Min Zhou (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bottom surface of a patient's foot makes contact with the receiving region of a device body to cause a set of temperature sensors to produce a current set of temperature values. Four or more earlier sets of temperature values produced at earlier times for the bottom surface o...