US Patent Issued to Genesis Intelligence on Dec. 23 for "Method and apparatus for hypertension classification" (Canadian, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,088, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Genesis Intelligence LLC (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Method and apparatus for hypertension classification" was invented by Newton Howard (Potomac, Md.), Mohamed Elgendi (Vancouver, Canada), Yongbo Liang (Guangxi, China), Zhencheng Chen (Guangxi, China) and Rabab Ward (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for screening and management of hypertension, which includes a high precision fingertip photoplethysmography (PPG) acquisition device and the application software of hypertension screening and management in a portable device such as a smartphone. The former includes 905 nm wavel...