ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,341, issued on March 24, was assigned to Vios Medical Inc. (Woodbury, Minn.).

"System for detecting QRS complexes in an electrocardiogramy (ECG) signal" was invented by Carlos A. Ricci (Apple Valley, Minn.) and Vladimir V. Kovtun (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a signal corresponding to electrical activity of a patient's heart; separating the signal into component signals; detecting fractional phase transitions for each of the component signals; generating, at each of the detected fractional phase transitions for each of the component signals,...