US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Oct. 27 for "System and method for monitoring airflow in a trachea with ultrasound" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,124, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for monitoring airflow in a trachea with ultrasound" was invented by Guelay Bilen-Rosas (Middleton, Wis.) and Humberto Gerardo Rosas (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described here are systems and methods for monitoring airflow changes in a patient's airway during a medical procedure or as a general patient monitoring tool. Doppler ultrasound signals are acquired from the tracheal wall of the patient and parameters from those Doppler ultrasound signals are compared to baseline parameters. When a threshold ch...