ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,061, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein program for blood pressure estimating program" was invented by Makoto Yoshizawa (Sendai, Japan), Norihiro Sugita (Sendai, Japan), Taihei Noro (Sendai, Japan) and Taiki Ikemiya (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for estimating a blood pressure includes a first pulse wave information detector configured to detect first pulse wave information at a first position of a living body, a second pulse wave information detector configured to detect seco...