US Patent Issued on July 21 for "System and method for saliency detection in long-term ECG monitoring" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,476, issued on July 21.

"System and method for saliency detection in long-term ECG monitoring" was invented by Sridhar Krishnan (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Sourav Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a computer-implemented method for identifying abnormal QRS-complexes in an ECG signal comprising: receiving an ECG signal with detected QRS-complexes; calculating and normalizing a plurality of geometric measures of the QRS-complexes; constructing an RGB image with three two-dimensional matrices, each matrix corresponding to one of the calculated plurality of geometric measures, the geo...