US Patent Issued to AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on April 14 for "Sensor device, system, and method for performing an absolute blood pressure measurement" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,308, issued on April 14, was assigned to AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Vienna).

"Sensor device, system, and method for performing an absolute blood pressure measurement" was invented by Siegfried Wassertheurer (Bad Gleichenberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device or system for performing a blood pressure measurement comprises a finger abutment surface, a first sensor operative to sense blood volume pulses in a finger pressed on the finger abutment surface, a second sensor operative to sense a force or pressure with which the finger is pressed on the finger abutment surface, and processing circuitry o...