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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joseph R. Lee, Belmont, CA (US);

Joseph M. Schmitt, Cupertino, CA (US);

Derek Young, Fremont, CA (US);

Pranay Jain, Cambridge, MA (US);

Ali M. Amin, Cupertino, CA (US);

Wegene Tadele, San Francisco, CA (US);

Zijing Zeng, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/022 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/02233 (2013.01); A61B 5/721 (2013.01); A61B 5/7246 (2013.01); A61B 5/02208 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments are directed to a blood pressure measurement device including a cuff that is operative to wrap around a limb of a user, a bladder coupled to the cuff and operative to compress the limb of the user when inflated, and a piezoelectric sensor coupled to the cuff and operative to detect blood flow through the limb of the user and output a signal indicative of the blood flow. The blood pressure measurement device can also include a processor coupled with the piezoelectric sensor that is operative to filter the signal to isolate sounds corresponding to changes in the blood flow through the limb due to inflation of the bladder, correlate the isolated sounds with a pressure inside the bladder, and determine a blood pressure of the user at least partially based on correlating the isolated sounds with the pressure.


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