US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and method for estimating blood pressure, and sensor for estimating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,784, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for estimating blood pressure, and sensor for estimating the same" was invented by Sang Yun Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jae Min Kang (Seoul, South Korea), Tak Hyung Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Byung Hoon Ko (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seung Woo Noh (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jin Woo Choi (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating blood pressure includes: a sensor, and a processor configured to estimate blood pressure based on a PPG signal and a contact pressure signal measur...