ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,037, issued on May 12.

"System and a computer-implemented method for detecting medical-device errors by analyzing acoustic signals generated by the medical device's components" was invented by Aaron Pickering (Berlin), Ritwika Mukherjee (Medford, Mass.), Felix Adam (Munich), Marie Elisabeth Heinrich (Munich), Alan Wei Min Tan (Singapore), Daniel Horcher (Hallstadt, Germany) and Torsten Labs (Nuemberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor element arranged to detect a spectrum of noise or vibrations of a medical device to be supervised the, a supervising element, whereby the sensor element and the supervisin...