ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,345, 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 Ui Kun Kwon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chang Soon Park (Chungju-si, South Korea) and Dae Geun Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for non-invasively estimating blood pressure is provided. The apparatus for estimating blood pressure may include a bio-signal measurer configured to measure a bio-signal from a user and a processor configured to estimate blood pressure using the measured bio-signal. The processor may extract a first feature an...