US Patent Issued to CloudNav on Sept. 29 for "Fetal magnetocardiography systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,938, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CloudNav Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fetal magnetocardiography systems and methods" was invented by Jeffery Dech (San Jose, Calif.), Erik E. Anderson (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ben Kokes (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods for monitoring of fetal health through determination of fetal heart rate are described. In an example, beat-to-beat decelerations and accelerations are monitored to estimate fetal position and orientation within the womb using magnetometer sensors. The described embodiments enable long-term monitoring that can be remote from a clini...