US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on April 14 for "Devices and methods for assessing pulmonary status using optical oxygenation sensing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,321, issued on April 14, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Devices and methods for assessing pulmonary status using optical oxygenation sensing" was invented by Jeffrey E. Stahmann (Ramsey, Minn.) and Keith R. Maile (New Brighton, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to devices and methods for assessing pulmonary status using optical oxygenation sensing. In an embodiment, an oxygenation monitoring device can be included having a first optical emitter, wherein the first optical emitter can be configured to emit light at a first wavelength from 100 nanometers (nm) to 2000 nm. The oxy...