US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Nov. 3 for "Techniques for model-based lung fluid status detection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,448, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Techniques for model-based lung fluid status detection" was invented by Joohyun Seo (Medford, Mass.) and Tony J. Akl (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a method of performing thoracic tomography on a human subject including performing multiple 4-wire impedance measurements on a region of interest to obtain measured impedance data; comparing the measured impedance data to simulated impedance data obtained from a plurality of models of the region of interest; for each of the models, determining a fit of the model based on a com...