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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2020
Applicant:
The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate, Denver, CO (US);
Inventors:
Tam Vu, Boulder, CO (US);
Robin Deterding, Boulder, CO (US);
Nhat Pham, Boulder, CO (US);
Nam Ngoc Bui, Broomfield, CO (US);
Assignee:
The Regents of the University of Colorado, a body corporate, Denver, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/022 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/021 (2006.01); A61B 5/024 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/02241 (2013.01); A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/02116 (2013.01); A61B 5/02141 (2013.01); A61B 5/02416 (2013.01); A61B 5/6817 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0247 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device is able to measure blood pressure from inside a user's ear. In the illustrated example, the device has three components: (1) a pulse sensor attached to an inflatable pipe which is placed inside the ear, (2) an air pump with a controller, and (3) blood pressure estimation modules including processors and computer executable instruction executed on the processors to execute blood pressure estimation algorithms.