US Patent Issued to Texas Tech University System on Sept. 30 for "Method and device for detecting subclinical hypoxemia using whole blood T 2P" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,544, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas).

"Method and device for detecting subclinical hypoxemia using whole blood T 2P" was invented by David P. Cistola (El Paso, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertain to methods of detecting hypoxemia in a subject by: (1) receiving a blood sample from the subject; (2) measuring the T2 relaxation time constant of the blood cell (e.g., blood cell pellet) of the blood sample (T2P value); and (3) correlating the measured T2P value to hypoxemia. The methods of the present disclosure also include a step of correlating the measure...