US Patent Issued to Masimo on June 30 for "Hydration measurement using optical sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,307, issued on June 30, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Hydration measurement using optical sensors" was invented by Ammar Al-Ali (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Walter M. Weber (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Sean Devlin (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a physiological monitoring system that can include a hardware processor. The hardware processor can access first optical data corresponding to a water-dependent radiation wavelength attenuated through a medium and detected at a detector. The hardware processor can access second optical data corresponding to a water-independent r...