US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Sept. 15 for "System for acoustic fetal heart rate monitoring" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,902, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System for acoustic fetal heart rate monitoring" was invented by Kyle Duckworth (Lemont, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided herein for a fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring system that determines when to selectively record and transmit acoustic FHR as part of FHR data acquired via a patient monitor. Non-acoustic FHR data may be streamed to an analytics system that may analyze the non-acoustic FHR data to determine whether unexpected or anomalous patterns are present in the non-acoustic FHR data. When an unexpected ...