ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,535, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Masimo Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Medical monitoring hub" was invented by Peter Scott Housel (Irvine, Calif.) and Bilal Muhsin (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient monitoring system includes a physiological sensor to sense light after it has passed through tissue of a patient and generate a signal indicative a physiological parameters in response to the sensed light, and a patient monitoring device in communication with the physiological sensor to receive the signal and determine measurements of the physiological parameters from the received signal. The patient monitorin...