ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,772, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Stretchable blood pressure cuff" was invented by Pranay Jain (Cambridge, Mass.), Nicholas R. Trincia (San Francisco), Chia-Hsien Lin (Glendale, Calif.) and Zijing Zeng (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a blood pressure measurement device that includes a cuff for measuring blood pressure of a user. The cuff may include a bladder assembly configured to retain a fluid within an internal chamber where the bladder assembly is formed from a first cell defining a first portion of the internal chamber that is connected with a second ce...