US Patent Issued to University of Houston System, THE METHODIST HOSPITAL, APOGEE INTERESTS on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for detection of pressure ulcers" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,953, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston), THE METHODIST HOSPITAL (Houston) and APOGEE INTERESTS LLC (Houston).

"Systems and methods for detection of pressure ulcers" was invented by Luca Pollonini (Manvel, Texas), Scott E. Parzynski (Houston) and Jeffrey D. Friedman (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein generally relate to devices, methods and systems for determining differential blood oxygenation for early detection of pressure ulcers. By applying near infrared radiation of an appropriate wavelength to the tissue and determining the absorbance at a plurality of p...