US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on Aug. 11 for "Wearable device for monitoring fluid overload with built-in sensors" (North Carolina, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,355, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Wearable device for monitoring fluid overload with built-in sensors" was invented by Qihua Xu (Cary, N.C.) and Andrzej J. Chanduszko (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device for monitoring a tissue swelling condition of a user is disclosed that includes a device attachment mechanism for securing the device to the user, and a sensing mechanism coupled to the attachment mechanism. The sensing mechanism can be configured to provide an electrical signal in accordance with the tissue swelling condition of the user to a c...