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...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7717855 | System for performing remote ischemic preconditioning A system for remote ischemic preconditioning that includes a cuff, and actuator, and a controller that operates the actuator according to a treatment protocol. The treatment protocol includes a plurality of treatment cycles that each comprise cuff actuation, an isch... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7341561 | Wrist-worn high-accuracy pulsation measuring apparatus A wrist-worn apparatus capable of sensing pulsation of blood in the blood tubes of a user's wrist with high accuracy. The apparatus comprises a body of the apparatus, a band to be used to wear the body of the apparatus on the user's wrist, and a fluid-containing pul... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7316651 | Method for automatically calibrating electronic sphygmomanometer The present invention discloses a method for automatically calibrating an electronic sphygmomanometer, which pumps air at a predetermined air pressure to a testing electronic sphygmomanometer to simultaneously pressurize a set of pressure sensors set for regular use... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7300404 | Method and system utilizing SpOplethysmograph signal to qualify NIBP pulses A method and system for operating a non-invasive blood pressure monitor that utilizes an SpO2 plethysmographic signal to reduce the time required to obtain an estimation of a patient's blood pressure. During operation of the NIBP monitor, the NIBP monitor... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7270636 | Apparatus and method for pulse detection An apparatus and method for pulse detection based on blood pressure measuring stage is disclosed. Both monitoring of blood pressure and blood vessel pulse are integrated and applied to an apparatus. With the components of the blood pressure monitor, such as an infla... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7229414 | Pulse wave measuring apparatus that can obtain optimum pressurization force of pressure sensor A pulse wave measuring apparatus extracts a direct current component from a pressure value obtained from a sensor pressure, and defines the pressurization force of the cuff as the optimum pressurization force when that direct current component is stable. Following d... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7226421 | Method of controlling blood pressure cuff deflation A method of operating a non-invasive blood pressure (NIBP) monitor that includes a blood pressure cuff and a pressure transducer. The method initially inflates the blood pressure cuff to a level above systolic pressure and begins to deflate the pressure cuff using a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7226419 | Mode detection and safety monitoring in blood pressure measurement A method is provided for blood pressure measurement by means of an inflatable cuff (50) applied to a limb of a vertebrate and pneumatically coupled to a first port (112A) and a second port (112B) of a blood pressure measurement apparatus (100... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7204809 | Pressurizing apparatus and method for the same A pressurizing apparatus and method for adjusting an optimal pressurizing rate according to a cuff of various lengths. The pressurizing method measures the pressure values at two reference points and time duration to calculate a pressurizing rate. A control adjustme... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7204808 | Apparatus, system and method for collecting non-invasive blood pressure readings An apparatus, system and method for collecting non-invasive blood pressure readings from a patient is provided. A non-invasive blood pressure cuff is arranged to be worn about a wrist of a patient and to be operatively connected to a blood pressure monitor. Communic... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198604 | Method and system for determination of pulse rate A method and system for determining pulse rate of a patient are disclosed. The method and system include acquiring measured information for at least one pulse at a pressure step, determining and storing quality values for the at least one pulse at the pressure step,... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7192402 | Diagnostic apparatus for analyzing arterial pulse waves A pulse wave analyzing apparatus that detects a pulse wave from a living body and computes a waveform distortion factor and determines a waveform shape for performing a diagnosis of a condition of the living body. ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7186218 | Method and system for cuff pressure reversions A method and system for determining when to make a reversion to smaller cuff pressure steps during an oscillometric blood pressure measurement is disclosed. The method and system comprise comparing conformance of oscillometric envelope blood pressure data with previ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7172555 | Vascular testing system A vascular sensing system includes blood flow restricting means, a sensor, and means for producing an output representing a return of blood flow after the blood vessel has been temporarily collapsed by the blood flow restricting means. The blood flow restricting mea... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7070566 | Artifact rejection using pulse quality values A method and system for making pulse rate and blood pressure determinations is disclosed. The method and system comprise collecting oscillometric blood pressure data from pulses, determining individual quality values for feature measurements of the pulses, obtaining... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7061387 | Measurement instrument, especially for level or pressure measurement with speech assistance The invention relates to a measurement instrument, especially for level and pressure measurement with a controller (9), which is connected to a memory unit (8), an input unit (11), and also an output unit (12). Here, the output unit (1... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7029448 | Electronic hemomanometer and blood pressure measuring method of electronic hemomanometer Oscillometry or another method is employed to initially determine a mean blood pressure and a diastolic blood pressure. There is a similarity between an intra-arterial pressure waveform exactly representing blood pressure and a pulse wave form generated when a cuff ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7014611 | Oscillometric noninvasive blood pressure monitor An oscillometric, noninvasive blood pressure monitor comprising an inflatable cuff adapted for placement around a body member, a pump for cuff inflation, a pressure transducer connected to the cuff, means for detecting oscillations in arterial pressure occurring dur... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6969356 | Inflatable cuff for blood pressure measurement An inflatable cuff for blood pressure measurement includes a first inflatable bag which is inflatable to press an arterial vessel of a body portion of a living subject and stop flow of blood in the arterial vessel which the inflatable cuff is adapted to be wound aro... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6893403 | Oscillometric determination of blood pressure A method and system for eliminating artifacts in an oscillation envelope are disclosed. The method and system comprise evaluating conformance of the oscillometric envelope blood pressure data with a predetermined expected pattern and excluding one or more data point... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6802816 | System for measuring blood pressure A method for measuring blood pressure during a limited number of blood pressure cycles at an area overlying an artery of a living subject, includes applying a pressure (P) to the artery for occluding the artery in response to a pressure signal. Subsequently the pres... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6719703 | Method and apparatus for measuring blood pressure by the oscillometric technique A method and apparatus for measuring blood pressure by the oscillometric technique. The method incorporates variable PIP's. The method comprises the steps of obtaining a value for the peak amplitude Amax of an oscillometric envelope; determining a cuff pr... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6602199 | Method and apparatus for measuring values of physiological parameters Apparatus for measuring a physiological parameter of a patient, such as blood pressure, takes a sequence consisting of a predetermined number of individual measurements. The apparatus computes a best estimate of the physiological parameter from values obt... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6565515 | Pulse-wave-propagation-velocity-relating-information obtaining apparatus and blood-pressure-index measuring apparatus An apparatus for obtaining information relating to a velocity at which a pulse wave propagates in a living subject, the apparatus including a first inflatable cuff and a second inflatable cuff which are adapted to be worn on two different portions of the ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6547740 | Blood pressure monitoring apparatus A blood pressure monitoring apparatus includes a blood pressure measuring device for measuring blood pressure employing a cuff, a pulse wave propagation time measuring device for measuring the pulse wave propagation time, a hemodynamics measuring device f... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6517495 | Automatic indirect non-invasive apparatus and method for determining diastolic blood pressure by calibrating an oscillation waveform Blood pressure of an human being is read by a process that places a cuff around a portion of the human being's body. The cuff is inflated to a predefined pressure which occludes the flow of blood and then the cuff is deflated in a controlled manner. At a ... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6517494 | System for measuring blood pressure A system (1) for measuring blood pressure during a limited number of blood pressure cycles at an area (2) overlying an artery (3) of a living subject, comprising a mechanism (4) for applying a pressure (P) to the artery for occluding artery in response to... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6511435 | Blood pressure measurement system A blood pressure measurement device and associated operating method utilize a measurement algorithm based on a plurality of measurements, supplying a unique ability to increase diagnostic and analytical success in detection. In an illustrative implementat... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6491638 | Circulation-condition monitoring apparatus A blood-circulation monitor including a heartbeat-synchronous-wave sensor, a first judging device for judging whether an arrhythmia has occurred to a living subject, based on a heartbeat-synchronous wave detected by the sensor, a first determining device ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6447457 | Non invasive blood pressure monitor and a method for the non-invasive measurement of the blood pressure A blood pressure measuring device is operatable in a first operating mode (M1) and in a second operating mode (M2). In the first operating mode, blood pressure values are based on one single measurement. In a second operating mode (M2), a mean value (S | 09/10/2002 |
| 6440080 | Automatic oscillometric apparatus and method for measuring blood pressure Blood pressure of an human being is read by a process that places a cuff around a portion of the human being's body. The cuff is inflated to a predefined pressure which occludes the flood of blood and then the cuff is deflated in a controlled manner. At a... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6402696 | Method for systolic blood pressure measurement A method for measuring systolic blood pressure includes raising the cuff pressure in such a manner that two conditions are satisfied: (1) The cuff air pressure takes sufficient time to reach the SBP value to avoid blood pressure in the arteries under the ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6322516 | Blood-pressure monitor apparatus A blood-pressure monitor, including a blood-pressure measuring device including a cuff, an information obtaining device which iteratively obtains, from a living subject, physical information which changes with change of blood pressure of the subject, a me... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6322517 | Electronic sphygmomanometer capable of adjusting pressure release rate during measurement An electronic sphygmomanometer starts from pressurization and then enters a decompression process. When measurement of blood pressure starts, only a standard pressure release rate voltage is applied to a valve from a standard pressure release rate voltage... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6241680 | Blood-pressure monitoring apparatus A blood-pressure monitoring apparatus including an inflatable cuff adapted to apply a pressing pressure to a body portion of a living subject, a cuff-pulse-wave detecting device which detects a cuff pulse wave which is produced in the inflatable cuff when... | 06/05/2001 |
| 5931790 | System and method for accurately monitoring the cardiovascular state of a living subject A blood-pressure measurement system accurately monitors a living subject's cardiovascular state, even if the living subject's blood pressure changes during a measurement, the living subject exhibits frequent arrhythmias, or motion artifacts are present du... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5743857 | Blood pressure monitor apparatus A blood pressure measurement of a blood pressure measuring device is terminated by a blood pressure measurement terminating device, when a difference |DM -DCP |/DCP between a phase difference DM obtained accordi... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5634467 | Method and apparatus for assessing cardiovascular performance A method of assessing the cardiovascular performance of a subject, by: applying periodically, in synchronism with every nth heart cardiac cycle wherein "n" is at least two, external pressure pulsations on a peripheral organ of the subject suffi... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5474076 | Blood pressure measuring apparatus A blood pressure measuring apparatus which comprises: a memory which stores the pressure value of a cuff when the cuff is to be pressurized again after the cuff has been pressurized; a comparator which, after the cuff is pressurized again, compares the pr... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5339819 | Pulse detecting apparatus A pulse detecting apparatus includes a combination of a pressure sensor; a minimum value detecting circuit for detecting a minimum value of the output of the pressure sensor; a maximum value detecting circuit for detecting a maximum value of the output of... | 08/23/1994 |
