Invention Application
- Patent Title: SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR MEASURING BLOOD PRESSURE OF A USER
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Application No.: US15507659Application Date: 2015-09-08
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Publication No.: US20170360306A1Publication Date: 2017-12-21
- Inventor: Ravi Narasimhan , Zijing Zeng , Richard C. Kimoto , Erno Klaassen , Thomas J. Sullivan , Derek Park-Shing Young , Todd K. Whitehurst
- Applicant: Apple, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee: APPLE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- International Application: PCT/US2015/048839 WO 20150908
- Main IPC: A61B5/022
- IPC: A61B5/022 ; A61B5/021 ; A61B5/00

Abstract:
The present invention generally relates to blood pressure monitoring. In some embodiments, methods and devices of measuring a mean arterial pressure are provided and/or monitoring blood pressure changes. A wrist-worn device may include a plurality of sensors backed by a plurality of actuators. Subsets of the plurality of sensors may be selectively actuateable against a wrist of a user using one or more of the plurality of actuators. A preferred sensor and location may be identified based on pressure signals received from each of the sensors. In some embodiments, devices may use a fluid bladder coupled with piezoelectric film sensors. A fluid bladder pressure sensor may be used to calibrate the piezoelectric film signal to provide a static and dynamic pressure reading. In yet another embodiment, a mean arterial pressure may be calculated by processing a swept pressure signal obtained as a sensor is swept through different heights.
Public/Granted literature
- US10702171B2 Systems, devices, and methods for measuring blood pressure of a user Public/Granted day:2020-07-07
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