ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,777, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Apparatus for monitoring uterine contractions" was invented by Roman Yermoshkin (Stuttgart, Germany), Markus Silvester Wohlschlager (Sindelfingen, Germany) and Hansjoerg Geywitz (Kusterdingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (10) is for use in monitoring uterine contractions. Means are provided for separately detecting (18) solid (e.g. flush) contact of at least a portion of a sensor unit (14) of the apparatus on the abdomen, and for a detecting (20) an initial starting pressure, or a baseline pressure, between the sensor u...