US Patent Issued on Sept. 8 for "Automated seizure detection, quantification, warning and therapy delivery using the slope of heart rate" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,812, issued on Sept. 8.

"Automated seizure detection, quantification, warning and therapy delivery using the slope of heart rate" was invented by Ivan Osorio (Reddick, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting seizures in a patient are disclosed. The method includes measuring at least one signal associated with the patient over a first time period, and calculating a first slope having a rate of change in a first signal of the at least one signal over the first time period. The first signal is a heart rate. The method also includes determining a difference between the first slope and a reference slope, as w...