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Description of the Company
9 Months Ended
Sep. 26, 2020
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Description of the Company
1. Description of the Company
Masimo Corporation (the Company) is a global medical technology company that develops, manufactures and markets a wide array of patient monitoring technologies, as well as automation and connectivity solutions. The Company’s mission is to improve patient outcomes and reduce the cost of patient care. The Company’s patient monitoring solutions generally incorporate a monitor or circuit board, proprietary single-patient use or reusable sensors, software and/or cables. The Company primarily sells its products to hospitals, emergency medical service providers, home care providers, physician offices, veterinarians, long term care facilities and consumers through its direct sales force, distributors and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners.
The Company invented Masimo Signal Extraction Technology® (SET®), which provides the capabilities of Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion pulse oximetry to address the primary limitations of conventional pulse oximetry. Over the years, the Company’s product offerings have expanded significantly to also include rainbow® Pulse CO-Oximetry, with its ability to monitor carboxyhemoglobin (SpCO®), methemoglobin (SpMet®), total hemoglobin concentration (SpHb®), fractional arterial oxygen saturation (SpfO2), Oxygen Content (SpOC), Pleth Variability Index (PVi®), rainbow® Pleth Variability Index (RPVi), respiration rate from the pleth (RRp®) and Oxygen Reserve Index (ORi); as well as acoustic respiration monitoring (RRa®), SedLine® brain function monitoring, NomoLine® capnography and gas monitoring and O3® Regional Oximetry. These technologies are based upon Masimo SET®, rainbow® and other proprietary algorithms and are incorporated into a variety of product platforms depending on customers’ specifications. The Company’s current technology offerings also include remote patient monitoring, connectivity, and hospital automation solutions, including Masimo Patient SafetyNet™(1), Masimo Patient SafetyNet Surveillance(1), Masimo SafetyNet, Masimo SafetyNet-Open, Replica, Iris®, MyView®, UniView, UniView:60, Trace, Masimo Sleep, Centroid and Bridge. The Company’s technologies are supported by a substantial intellectual property portfolio that the Company has built through internal development and, to a lesser extent, acquisitions and license agreements.