US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Feb. 17 for "System for detecting abnormal blood volume and pressure" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,114, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"System for detecting abnormal blood volume and pressure" was invented by Venugopal Gopinathan (Boston) and Tony J. Akl (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system for detecting abnormal blood pressure or blood volume in a user, the system comprising a processing system; a pulse transit time (PTT) detection system for providing a PTT signal indicative of a PTT of the user to the processing system, wherein PTT of the user is used as a surrogate for a blood pressure (BP) of the user; and an electrodermal activit...