ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,356, issued on April 14, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Fetal heart rate monitoring" was invented by Ravindranath Radhakrishnan (Bangalore, India), Pallavi Vajinepalli (Bangalore, India), Hansjoerg Geywitz (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Hoa Pham (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an ultrasound fetal heart rate monitoring system (100). An ultrasound probe placed on a maternal abdomen provides sensor data. The ultrasound probe is first operated in an imaging mode to obtain an ultrasound image from the ultrasound probe. A trained object detection model is a...