US Patent Issued to OXEHEALTH on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring of a human or animal subject" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,225, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OXEHEALTH Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring of a human or animal subject" was invented by Nicholas Dunkley Hutchinson (Oxford, Great Britain) and Simon Mark Chave Jones (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for monitoring a human or animal subject in a room using video imaging of the subject and analysis of the video image to detect and quantify movement of the subject and to derive an estimate of vital signs such as heart rate or breathing rate. The method includes techniques for de-correlating global intensity variations ...