US Patent Issued to Masimo on Feb. 24 for "Acoustic respiratory monitoring sensor having multiple sensing elements" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,033, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Acoustic respiratory monitoring sensor having multiple sensing elements" was invented by Valery G. Telfort (Irvine, Calif.), Dimitar Dimitrov (Saint-Laurent, Canada) and Phi Trang (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain described aspects, multiple acoustic sensing elements are employed in a variety of beneficial ways to provide improved physiological monitoring, among other advantages. In various embodiments, sensing elements can be advantageously employed in a single sensor package, in multiple sensor packages, and at a variety of other str...