ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,974, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AUSCULSCIENCES INC. (Vienna, Va.).

"Medical decision support system" was invented by Brian J. Booth (Munster, Canada), Marina Vernalis (Silver Spring, Md.), Bahareh Taji (Ottawa), Fatma Usta (Nepean, Canada), David Gloag (Kanata, Canada), Sergey A. Telenkov (Ottawa) and Robin F. Castelino (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Support Vector Machine trained responsive to mean and median values of standard and Shannon energy for a plurality of time and frequency intervals within a heart cycles provides for detecting coronary artery disease (CAD). A quality of an auscultatory sound ti...