ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,121, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd (Beijing).

"Blood pressure prediction method and device fusing nominal photoplethysmography (PPG) signal data" was invented by Jun Cao (Beijing), Biying Zhang (Beijing), Sihan Wang (Beijing) and Zejian Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting blood pressure by fusing calibrated photoplethysmography (PPG) signal data includes obtaining real-time PPG signal data, calibrated PPG signal data, calibrated diastolic blood pressure data, and systolic blood pressure data; using a CNN+ANN model to calculate the relative blood pressure da...