ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,013, issued on April 21, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Modular patient monitor" was invented by Massi Joe E. Kiani (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Ammar Al-Ali (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Michael O'Reilly (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Ronald Jansen (San Clemente, Calif.), Nicholas Evan Barker (Laguna Beach, Calif.) and Anand Sampath (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular patient monitor provides a multipurpose, scalable solution for various patient monitoring applications. In an embodiment, a modular patient monitor utilizes multiple wavelength optical sensor and/or acoustic sensor technologies to provide ...