US Patent Issued to UnitedHealth Group on Sept. 1 for "Machine learning-based systems and methods for breath monitoring and assistance of a patient" (New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,540, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to UnitedHealth Group Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Machine learning-based systems and methods for breath monitoring and assistance of a patient" was invented by Jon Kevin Muse (Thompsons Station, Tenn.), Marilyn L. Gordon (Cherry Hill, N.J.), Komal Khatri (Cedar Park, Texas) and Gregory J. Boss (Saginaw, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for real time monitoring of a patient's breathing utilizing automatically controlled devices and machine learning based techniques to determine a full breath of a patient and to identify splinting points, and to thereby transmit st...