US Patent Issued to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY on Sept. 15 for "Respiration feature extraction method based on body surface significance analysis" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,898, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Respiration feature extraction method based on body surface significance analysis" was invented by Shumei Yu (Suzhou, China), Yao Yao (Suzhou, China), Rongchuan Sun (Suzhou, China) and Lining Sun (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a respiration feature extraction method based on body surface significance analysis, including: establishing a body surface voxel model of chest and abdomen respiration motion, which includes acquisition of point cloud information, generation of the voxel model and extraction of respira...