US Patent Issued to National University of Ireland, Galway, University of Limerick on May 5 for "System for management and prevention of venous pooling" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,381, issued on May 5, was assigned to National University of Ireland, Galway (Galway, Ireland) and University of Limerick (Limerick, Ireland).

"System for management and prevention of venous pooling" was invented by Gavin Corley (Ennis, Ireland), Gearoid O'Laighin (Ennis, Ireland), Paul Breen (Emly, Ireland), Barry Broderick (O'Briens Bridge, Ireland), Pierce A. Grace (Patrickswell, Ireland) and Derek O'Keeffe (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system comprises sensors adapted to be worn by a user, and, a processor linked with the sensor. The processor receives sensor data and processes this data to determin...