US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on April 7 for "Device, system and method for determining respiratory information of a subject" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,003, issued on April 7, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Device, system and method for determining respiratory information of a subject" was invented by Ilde Lorato (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Gerard de Haan (Helmond, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device, system and method for determining respiratory information of a subject. The device comprises an image input (21) configured to obtain thermal images of the subject, processing unit (22) configured to determine respiratory information of the subject from the thermal images, and an output (23) configur...