US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for processing asthma patient cough sound for application of appropriate therapy" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,493, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND (Brisbane, Australia).

"Method and apparatus for processing asthma patient cough sound for application of appropriate therapy" was invented by Udantha Abeyratne (Red Hill, Australia), Vinayak Swarnkar (Red Hill, Australia) and Paul Anthony Porter (Red Hill, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for stratifying severity of asthma of a patient initially comprises receiving acoustic data corresponding to sounds of the patient from an acoustic sensor and identifying, by a processor, at least one cough sound in the acoustic data. With or without the patient b...