U.S. Patent 7729733 was awarded to Masimo Laboratories on 2010-06-01 and describes a “Configurable physiological measurement system.” This patent has been cited 254 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A physiological measurement system has a sensor, a processor, a communications link and information elements. The sensor is configured to transmit light having a plurality of wavelengths into a tissue site and to generate a sensor signal responsive to the transmitted light after tissue attenuation. The processor is configured to operate on the sensor signal so as to derive at least one physiological parameter. The communications link is adapted to provide communications between the sensor and the processor. The information elements are distributed across at least one of the sensor, the processor and the communications link and provide operational information corresponding to at least one of the sensor, the processor and the communications link. Link: U.S. Patent 7729733

This patent was originally filed on 2006-03-01 which gives it a processing time of 1553 days, compared to an average processing time of 1829 in the field. Masimo Laboratories has 37 total patents. The first named inventor is Walter M. Weber of Laguna Hills, CA. The primary examiner was Eric F Winakur.

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