ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,845, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Decentralized Biotechnology Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Taipei City, Taiwan).
"Wearable stethoscope" was invented by Yao-Sheng Chou (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wei-Sheng Su (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Hsiao-Yi Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable stethoscope includes a clothing body, a sound sensor configured to collect heart sound signals of a user, the sound sensor having a diaphragm, a piezoelectric sensor, and a circuit board. The circuit board is electrically connected to the sound sensor and the piezoelectric sensor to preprocess the collected heart sound signals. The so...