ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,976, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Hand-held apparatus for noninvasive measurement of a heart performance metric" was invented by Shannon Fong (San Francisco), Eric Bennett (San Carlos, Calif.) and Brian Derek DeBusschere (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, machine-accessible storage media, and methods for noninvasively measuring a heart performance metric, such as left ventricular filling pressure, are described. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes a housing shaped to be grasped by a hand; a tower protruding from a surface of the housing po...