Patent 7035679 was granted and assigned to Cardiodigital Limited on April, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A pulse oximetry signal, suitably a photoplethysmogram (PPG), is decomposed by wavelet transform techniques, and the decomposed signal analysed to provide selected physiological data. The signal may be processed to remove noise, artefacts, or transient features. Information on respiration may also be recovered.