ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,453, issued on July 21, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"System and method for monitoring blood perfusion" was invented by Marco Lai (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Claudio Dicorato (Milan), Frank Verbakel (Helmond, Netherlands), Gerhardus Wilhelmus Lucassen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Nico Maris Adriaan De Wild (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Marc Godfriedus Marie Notten (Elsloo, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (and method) is for monitoring blood perfusion. A plurality of photoplethysmography, PPG, signals are acquired indicative of light detected in a region of interest of tissue at ...