US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Nov. 25 for "Accelerometer signal change as a measure of patient functional status" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,285, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Accelerometer signal change as a measure of patient functional status" was invented by Bruce D. Gunderson (Plymouth, Minn.) and Ya-Jian Cheng (Lino Lakes, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device system that includes accelerometer circuitry configured to generate signals including a sagittal axis signal, a vertical axis signal and a transverse axis signal, and processing circuitry configured to calculate a patient-specific functional status parameter associated with a Sit-To-Stand test from at least one of the sagittal axis signal, the vertical axis s...