US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Nov. 3 for "Wearable heart failure monitor" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,496, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Wearable heart failure monitor" was invented by Jonathan Bennett Shute (Eagan, Minn.), Bin Mi (Arden Hills, Minn.) and Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting and managing heart failure are discussed. A medical-device system receives heart sound information sensed from the patient, generates a heart sound metric using the received heart sound information, and generate a heart failure indicator indicating whether the patient has a heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF)...