ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,155, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Arrowhead Center Inc. (Las Cruces, N.M.).

"Electrocardiogram sensing and processing" was invented by Wei Tang (Las Cruces, N.M.) and Xiaochen Tang (Las Cruces, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real-time electrocardiogram ("ECG") monitoring system for wearable devices. Embodiments of the invention are based on parallel Delta modulator architecture with local maximum point and local minimum point algorithms to detect QRS and PT waves. The parallel Delta modulators preferably convert ECG signals to two channels of three-state Delta modulated bitstreams. Using embodiments of the invention, real-...