Vascular Tone Monitoring System (VATMOS)


VATMOS is a wearable ring that provides continuous blood pressure monitoring in critically ill and injured patients.

Value Proposition

By continuously assessing peripheral vascular tone, this piezoelectric-optical wearable ring provides real time insights into how the cardiovascular system is responding to illness or injury before changes in traditional vital signs like blood pressure occur. This sensor provides almost immediate feedback to clinicians on the physiologic response to treatment.

Competitive Advantage

VATMOS is easily portable, provides continuous hemodynamic monitoring, and predicts hypotension up to 108 minutes in advance. VATMOS also provides more relevant data to physicians, making it a better indicator of patient physiology than current devices such as pulse oximeters. VATMOS has practical applications in dialysis centers, combat situations, emergency rooms, ambulances, and eventually in a patient’s home.

  • Continuous Monitoring

  • Portable

  • Numerous Applications


Unique Features

  • VATMOS is easily portable

  • VATMOS can detect potential cardiovascular events and hypotension much earlier than the traditional cuff system

  • VATMOS provides continuous hemodynamic monitoring, and predicts hypotension up to 108 minutes in advance

  • Better indicator of patient physiology than current devices such as pulse oximeters

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Licensing Information
Available for Licensing

Principal Investigators
Sardar Anari, PhD
Kevin Ward, MD
Kayvan Najarian, PhD
Kenn Oldham, PhD

Intellectual Property
Invention Disclosure #5949, 6147, 7169, 2020-205
Patent Issued # US10610113, US9974488, US11172839.

Solution Sheet
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MARKET OPPORTUNITY

In many emergency and critical care situations, having an accurate read on a patient’s autoregulatory response is vital for a successful outcome. VATMOS provides a cardiovascular vital sign for at risk patients in settings like sepsis, trauma, complex cardiovascular surgeries, and TBI. VATMOS also has practical applications in dialysis centers, combat situations, emergency rooms, ambulances, and eventually in a patient’s home.

Contact Innovation Partnerships representative Jeremy Nelson for more information about investment and partnership opportunities.

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$763,948 in non-dilutive funding

  • 2016 $121,000 Coulter Foundation

  • 2016 $374,999 NSF

  • 2017 $85,000 The Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR)

  • 2018 $5,336 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Micro Grant Award

  • 2023 $82,000 Kahn Award

  • 2024 $95,613 Massey TBI Award

Substantial additional departmental, school and center based support

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IEEE Sensors Journal 11.2020

IEEE/ASME 2019

ASME 2018

Circulation v.138 supplemental

Sensors and Actuators v.263

American Control Conference (ACC) 2017

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) 2017

Circulation v.134 supplemental

Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) 2016

Circulation v.132 supplemental