US Patent Issued to Rockley Photonics on July 21 for "System and method for measuring blood pressure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,449, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrinchman, Great Britain).

"System and method for measuring blood pressure" was invented by Kate LeeAnn Bechtel (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Mohsen Naji (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for measuring blood pressure. In some embodiments, a system includes a speckleplethysmography sensor and a processing circuit. The system may be configured: to perform, using the speckleplethysmography sensor, blood flow measurements of a subject, and measurements of cuff pressure of a cuff worn by the subject, while the cuff pressure varies; and ...