ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,264, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"System for sensing arterial pulse waveform" was invented by Yu-Pin Hsu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zemin Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mona Mostafa Hella (Watervliet, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides an offset calibration circuitry configured to compensate an offset voltage of a resistive bridge sensor. The offset calibration circuitry includes a first current digital to analog converter (IDAC) coupled to a first successive approximation register (SAR), a second IDAC coupled to a second SAR and an SAR controller circuitry. Th...