ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,142, issued on March 31, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Monitoring subjects after discharge" was invented by Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate (Waalre, Netherlands), Salvatore Saporito (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Andreas Ejupi (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for setting one or more thresholds for post-discharge monitoring of a target subject. The thresholds are set to be time-dependent, so that the current value of the threshold depends upon a time since the target subject has been discharged from a clinical environment."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2022,...