US Patent Issued to Entac Medical on Nov. 3 for "Enhanced detection and analysis of biological acoustic signals" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,536, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Entac Medical Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Enhanced detection and analysis of biological acoustic signals" was invented by John W. Cromwell (Iowa City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for predicting risk and likelihood of post-operative gastrointestinal impairment based on regression analysis of multiple spectral events related to intestinal sounds, with decreased or eliminated falsely elevated values of those events due to ambient noise."

The patent was filed on March 5, 2024, under Application No. 18/595,932.

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