US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE on July 7 for "Lung function monitoring from heart signals" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,783, issued on July 7, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.).

"Lung function monitoring from heart signals" was invented by Kofi M. Odame (Hanover, N.H.) and Maria T. Nyamukuru (West Lebanon, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A breathing monitor has ECG, PPG, or bioimpedance sensors feeding a neural network to provide inspiratory and expiratory phases of breathing and tidal volume (TV), filters for the inspiratory and expiratory phases of breathing and TV; and apparatus configured to provide measurements of breathing rate (RR), and fractional inspiratory time (FIT). In embodiments, the device uses the RR,...