ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,777, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA (Hefei, China).

"Contactless electrocardiogram monitoring method based on millimeter-wave radar" was invented by Yan Chen (Hefei, China), Jinbo Chen (Hefei, China), Dongheng Zhang (Hefei, China), Dong Zhang (Hefei, China), Qibin Sun (Hefei, China) and Manqing Wu (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless electrocardiogram monitoring method based on a millimeter wave radar is provided, including: step S1: transmitting a millimeter-wave signal to a target to be tested and receiving an echo signal using the millimeter-wave radar; step S...