ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,847, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Continuous blood pressure measurement system and method" was invented by Rohan Joshi (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sergei Y. Shulepov (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Kevin Daniel Seng Hung Lau (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for measuring blood pressure makes flow velocity measurements from an artery location and vessel diameter measurements from the same artery location, using an ultrasound system. An arterial wave velocity is obtained from the blood flow velocity and vessel diameter and changes in blood pr...