US Patent Issued to University of Washington on May 12 for "Remote monitoring of oxygenation status and blood pulsation within skin tissue" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,613, issued on May 12, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Remote monitoring of oxygenation status and blood pulsation within skin tissue" was invented by Ruikang K. Wang (Seattle) and Qinghau He (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring blood oxygenation including acquiring one or more images of a portion of a body with an RGB camera, converting RGB colors in the one or more images into a multispectral data imaging cube, wherein the multispectral date imaging cube comprises a red channel, a blue channel, and a green channel, decoupling an oxygenated blood information and a deoxygenated blood infor...