US Patent Issued to Medtronic on April 14 for "Detection and monitoring of sleep apnea conditions" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,335, issued on April 14, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Detection and monitoring of sleep apnea conditions" was invented by Yong K. Cho (Excelsior, Minn.), Eduardo N. Warman (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Gautham Rajagopal (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting sleep apnea includes generating a cardiac signal indicating activity of a heart of a patient. The method further includes determining a short-term average heart rate and a long-term average heart rate. The method further includes determining a start and end of a heart rate cycle based on the short-term average heart rate and the long-term ...