US Patent Issued to Oregon Health & Science University on July 28 for "Wearable photoplethysmography device for detecting clinical decompensation based on heart rate variability" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,775, issued on July 28, was assigned to Oregon Health & Science University (Portland, Ore.).

"Wearable photoplethysmography device for detecting clinical decompensation based on heart rate variability" was invented by David Sheridan (Portland, Ore.), Steven D. Baker (Portland, Ore.) and Ryan Dehart (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are clinical decompensation monitoring platforms and methods. An example platform includes a wearable device to acquire photoplethysmography (PPG) waveform data representing a person's heart rate variability (HRV). Also disclosed are methods for collecting and verifying the HRV data,...