US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on April 7 for "Pulse wave transit time measurement device and living body state estimation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,996, issued on April 7, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Pulse wave transit time measurement device and living body state estimation device" was invented by Toru Shimuta (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse wave transit time measurement device includes a neck band, a pair of electrocardiographic electrodes detecting an electrocardiographic signal, a photoplethysmographic sensor detecting a pulse wave signal, and a pulse wave transit time calculator calculating a pulse wave transit time based on a peak time difference between the electrocardiographic signal detected by the electrocard...