US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 30 for "Selective photoacoustic sampling for blood pressure prediction" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,261, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Selective photoacoustic sampling for blood pressure prediction" was invented by Fitzgerald John Archibald (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed methods involve monitoring a heart rate waveform associated with a subject to detect cardiac cycle markers, determining a cardiac phase transition window based on the cardiac cycle markers, and activating a photoacoustic sampling system at a start of the cardiac phase transition window, the photoacoustic sampling system including a piezoelectric receiver and a light source system. Such methods m...