ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,170, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ViOptix Inc. (Newark, Calif.).
"Oximeter with StO2 averaging" was invented by Alex Michael Margiott (Dunbarton, N.H.), William Welch (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sushant Potdar (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oximetry device sealed in a sheath directs a user to allow the oximetry device to make oximetry measurements at a number of different tissue locations of a patient and average two or more of the oximetry measurements by directing the lifts and placements of the oximetry device and sheath to and from the different tissue locations and detecting the lift and placements. The ave...