US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 16 for "Devices and systems for controlling pressure during sensing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,698, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Devices and systems for controlling pressure during sensing" was invented by Ren Li (San Diego), Qilin Lu (San Diego), Htet Naing (San Diego), Samuel Jon Eubanks (San Diego) and Kostadin Dimitrov Djordjev (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and systems for controlling pressure during sensing are disclosed. Such sensors and/or systems may be embodied in a wearable user device. The wearable user device may include a cuff configured to apply a pressure to a portion of a user at a plurality of discrete pressure levels over a plurality of time peri...