ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,844, issued on June 24, was assigned to The University of Nottingham (Nottingham, Great Britain).

"Monitoring physiological parameters" was invented by Stephen Morgan (Nottingham, Great Britain), Barrie Hayes-Gill (Nottingham, Great Britain), Serhiy Korposh (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Ricardo Correia (Nottingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system (100) for monitoring one or more physiological parameters of an individual. The system (100) comprises an optical fibre assembly (110) configured to measure one or more physiological parameters of an individual, and a pressure sensor (...