ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,318, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Device, system and method for determining pulse pressure variation of a subject" was invented by Shaoxiong Sun (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Wouter Herman Peeters (Waalre, Netherlands) and Rick Bezemer (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device, system and method for determining pulse pressure variation of a subject. To enable more reliably determining pulse pressure variation of a subject the device comprises a signal input (11) configured to obtain an input signal representing a hemodynamic signal of the ...