US Patent Issued to Timpel Medical on Sept. 8 for "Devices, systems, and methods for assessing lung characteristics via regional impedance and patient positioning" (Brazilian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,778, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Timpel Medical B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Devices, systems, and methods for assessing lung characteristics via regional impedance and patient positioning" was invented by Glasiele Cristina Alcala (Sao Paulo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for assessing characteristics of a lung of a patient. A method includes, during an applied positive end expiratory pressure, identifying a first position of a patient, acquiring first impedance data representative of at least a region of patient's lung when the patient is in the first position, during the applied positive end expiratory...