US Patent Issued to NuPulseCV on Oct. 6 for "Real-time detection of r-waves and methods therefor" (North Carolina, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,098, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NuPulseCV Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Real-time detection of r-waves and methods therefor" was invented by Douglas Edward Ivers (Cary, N.C.), Guruprasad Anapathur Giridharan (Louisville, Ky.) and Nagarjuna Reddy Chinta (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive unit system for operating a cardiac assist device is disclosed. The drive unit system may include an R-wave detection module that makes a speculative detection of an R-wave associated with a received electrocardiogram (ECG) signal of a patient's heart and a conservative detection of the R-wave. The drive unit system includes a drive uni...