ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,992, issued on April 7, was assigned to OMRON HEALTHCARE Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Sphygmomanometer, personal authentication method on a sphygmomanometer, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Sho Terazawa (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sphygmomanometer of the present invention includes a cuff for compressing a site to be measured of a subject, and measures a blood pressure by observing a pressure of the cuff. The sphygmomanometer includes a feature acquisition unit that acquires feature information regarding a pressure change pattern of a subject to be authenticated. The pressure change pattern rise...