US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Feb. 3 for "ECG-based age and sex estimation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,087, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"ECG-based age and sex estimation" was invented by Itzhak Zachi Attia (Rochester, Minn.), Paul A. Friedman (Rochester, Minn.), Suraj Kapa (Rochester, Minn.) and Francisco Lopez-Jimenez (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for estimating the age and sex of a person through analysis of an electrocardiogram (ECG) recording for the person. Some aspects include recording an ECG of a person, processing data representing the ECG with an age-estimation neural network to gener...