ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,901, issued on May 26, was assigned to ResMed Sensor Technologies Ltd. (Ireland).

"Method and apparatus for determining potential onset of an acute medical condition" was invented by Katherine Kawecki (West Ryde, Australia) and Christian Reeks (West Ryde, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of managing risk, of a subject, of suffering an adverse condition relating to a physiological system of the subject. The method includes a. providing a wearable acoustic sensor, b. providing a data processor, and c. causing the processor to i. monitor the output from the sensor, ii. apply a predictive numerical model to g...