ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,507, issued on July 21, was assigned to GLOBALMED HOLDINGS LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Stethoscope systems and assemblies" was invented by Phnam Bagley (San Francisco), Joseph Benjamin Moak (San Carlos, Calif.), Yuri Viacheslav Litvinov (San Carlos, Calif.), Daniel Corey Wiggins (Ventura, Calif.), Nadezhda Kutyreva (San Mateo, Calif.), Thomas Herbert Grimm (San Jose, Calif.), Arne Lang-Ree (San Jose, Calif.), Shailendra Shashikant Govardhan (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Mark Adrian Stubbs (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chest piece for a wireless stethoscope system can be configured to receive, from the accelerometer, mot...