ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,312, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Bardy Diagnostics Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"System and method for scalable ECG analysis" was invented by Ezra Dreisbach (Vashon, Wash.) and Daniel Paris (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The efficient utilization is provided within a cloud-computing environment where a master plane executing on a master node controls spinning up and down worker nodes, with worker nodes whose output is necessary for functioning of other worker nodes being spun up before the worker nodes needing that output. By dedicating the available computational resources to the earlier-spun worker nodes, these w...