ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,344, issued on May 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for estimating blood pressure" was invented by Chang Soon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ui Kun Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Soo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hye Rim Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating blood pressure may include: a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor configured to measure a PPG signal from a user; and a processor configured to: extract a cardiovascular feature from the PPG signal; calculate a first variation in the extracted cardiovascular feature com...