ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,944, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Assistance in the detection of pulmonary diseases" was invented by Anne Claudia Gehre (Grevenbroich, Germany), Bjorn Labitzke (Cologne, Germany), Abdullah Shafin (Leverkusen, Germany) and Holger Diedam (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the detection of acute respiratory distress syndrome in a patient. Subjects of the present disclosure are a computer system, a method and a computer program product for detection of acute respiratory distress syndrome."

The patent was filed on Nov. 23, 2020, under Application No. 1...