US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on May 26 for "Physiological monitoring apparatuses, systems and methods" (American, Ugandan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,948, issued on May 26, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Physiological monitoring apparatuses, systems and methods" was invented by Kevin Cedrone (Somerville, Mass.), James Wright (Boston), Kristian Olson (Holliston, Mass.), Data Santorino (Mbarara, Uganda) and Beth Mosher (Jamaica Plain, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Physiological monitoring systems, apparatuses and methods are disclosed. In an embodiment, a system includes an umbilical cord clamp having a sensor and a base station. The clamp is moveable between an open position and a clamped position in which the sensor contacts the umbilical cord to sense...