US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on Sept. 22 for "Noninvasive cardiovascular event detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,738, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Noninvasive cardiovascular event detection" was invented by Niema M. Pahlevan (Los Angeles) and Rashid Alavi Dehkordi (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to using noninvasive techniques to determine whether a patient has experienced a cardiac event. The present application also relates to using noninvasive techniques to determine a size of a myocardial infarction experienced by a patient. In some embodiments, arterial pressure waveforms may be obtained, and from the arterial pressure waveform, a set of c...