US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on April 14 for "Wearable and portable system and method for measuring cardiac parameters for detecting cardiopathies" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,315, issued on April 14, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Wearable and portable system and method for measuring cardiac parameters for detecting cardiopathies" was invented by Enrico Rosario Alessi (Catania, Italy), Fabio Passaniti (Syracuse, Italy) and Oriana Rita Antonia Di Marco (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for measuring cardiac parameters uses a movements sensor to generate a seismocardiographic signal and a cardiac parameters calculation unit. The cardiac parameters calculation unit provides for generating an envelope signal correlated to the seismocardiographic signal; ident...