ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,090, issued on July 14, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Quantification of intermittent function of baroreflex from continuous arterial pressure data" was invented by Daniel A. Beard (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Daniel E. Michele (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brian E. Carlson (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Feng Gu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for measuring arterial pulse and heart rate of a subject includes a wearable sensor assembly configured to be attached to the subject to measure the blood pressure of the subject. The apparatus further includes a signal processor configured to ...