ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,229, issued on June 3, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Modular multi-parameter patient monitoring device" was invented by Nicholas Evan Barker (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Chad A. DeJong (Los Angeles), Kirby Clark Dotson (Temecula, Calif.), Ammar Al-Ali (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Bilal Muhsin (San Clemente, Calif.), Sujin Hwang (Irvine, Calif.) and Massi Joe E. Kiani (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-parameter patient monitoring device rack can dock a plurality of patient monitor modules and can communicate with a separate display unit. A signal processing unit can be incorporated into the de...