ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,792, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Zynex Monitoring Solutions Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).
"Tapped light in a laser-based photoplethysmographic device" was invented by Jonas Alexander Pologe (Boulder, Colo.) and Theodore Philip Delianides (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoplethysmographic device includes a photoplethysmographic monitor, two or more emitters coupled to and controlled by the monitor, the emitters including at least one laser and at least one of the at least one lasers is a tapped laser configured to emit light through a primary optical path from the emitter to a sensor, and a photodetector coupled ...