ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,603, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan City, Taiwan).
"Wearable cardiac ultrasound patch, cardiovascular disease identification system, and method thereof" was invented by Shuenn-Yuh Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chun-Rong Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ju-Yi Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan), Meng-Dar Shieh (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chih-Hsien Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ding-Siang Ciou (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Yi-Ting Hsieh (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Ming-Yueh Ku (Taichung City, Taiwan), Kai-Ze Lei (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Jia-Jun Liu (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable cardi...