ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,324, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC (Dallas).
"Liquid coupled blood pressure sensor" was invented by David Heinz (Woodside, Calif.), Darien Niamir (Redwood City, Calif.) and Michael Allen (Orinda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable blood pressure meter includes a semi-conformable bladder, serving as a reservoir for an incompressible fluid, and a pressure sensor. The semi-conformable bladder includes a rigid housing defining a cavity within which the incompressible fluid is rigidly constrained and an elastic membrane for elastically constraining the incompressible fluid. The elastic membran...