US Patent Issued to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings on March 31 for "Diagnostic methods and systems using sound detection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,316, issued on March 31, was assigned to Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Diagnostic methods and systems using sound detection" was invented by John E. Tremblay (Bolton, Mass.) and Harvey Cohen (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of monitoring a medical treatment device includes detecting a sound of the medical treatment device with a detection device, determining whether the sound is an irregular sound, and deploying an intervention upon determining that the sound is the irregular sound."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2022, under Application No. 17/881,198.

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