ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,590, issued on May 12, was assigned to KPR US. LLC (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Monitoring vital parameters of a compression garment wearer" was invented by Jesse E. Denson (Lincoln, R.I.), Laura E. Keith (Acton, Mass.), Scott Wudyka (Marlboro, Mass.) and Zaheer Abdool (Randolph, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring vital parameters of a wearer of a compression garment by analyzing a pressure signal waveform indicative of a fluid pressure in an inflatable and deflatable bladder of the compression garment. Analyzing the pressure signal waveform for an oscillating amplitude as a function of time and/or a representation of a pulse of ...