US Patent Issued to Nisshinbo Micro Devices on March 17 for "Electronic stethoscope signal processor, electronic stethoscope system, electronic stethoscope signal processing program and electronic stethoscope signal processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,236, issued on March 17, was assigned to Nisshinbo Micro Devices Inc. (Tokyo).

"Electronic stethoscope signal processor, electronic stethoscope system, electronic stethoscope signal processing program and electronic stethoscope signal processing method" was invented by Suehiro Shimauchi (Ishikawa, Japan), Kanako Takemoto (Saitama, Japan), Masashi Kitagawa (Saitama, Japan), Chunhui Pan (Saitama, Japan), Daisuke Sakata (Saitama, Japan), Tei Yui (Saitama, Japan) and Hajime Fujiwara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extract intracorporeal sounds (such as low-frequency-range heart sounds or breath sounds) by not only reducin...