US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Sept. 15 for "Entropy based heart sound tracking" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,897, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Entropy based heart sound tracking" was invented by Mojgan Goftari (Shoreview, Minn.), Jonathan Bennett Shute (Eagan, Minn.), Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.) and Viktoria A. Averina (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for recognizing and tracking heart sound components are disclosed. An exemplary medical-device system comprises a data receiver circuit to receive heart sound information, and a heart sound recognition circuit to generate a representative heart sound segment within a cardiac cycle, such a...