US Patent Issued to Covidien on Feb. 24 for "Reduction of temperature from high power LED in a medical sensor" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,318, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Reduction of temperature from high power LED in a medical sensor" was invented by Derek L. Moody (Lafayette, Colo.), Linden A. Reustle (Milliken, Colo.), Sarah L. Hayman (Boulder, Colo.) and Jacob Dove (Lafayette, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring sensor having a communication interface, through which the patient monitoring sensor can communicate with a monitor is provided. The patient monitoring sensor includes a light-emitting diode (LED) communicatively coupled to the communication interface and a detector, communicatively coupled to t...