ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,460, issued on June 2, was assigned to RDS (Strasbourg, France).

"Vital signs or health monitoring systems and methods" was invented by Mark P. Marriott (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeffrey C. Marshall (Belmont, Calif.), George Stefan Golda (El Granada, Calif.) and Sam Eletr (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a pulse oximetry method in which the contribution of venous capillaries to photoplethysmogram is reduced below 25%."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2021, under Application No. 17/922,215.

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