ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,407, issued on May 6.

"System and method of monitoring a life-threating medical situation based on an ejection-fraction measurement" was invented by Lazaro Eduardo Hernandez (Cooper City, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of monitoring a life-threating medical situation based on an ejection-fraction measurement is provided with a medical monitoring system. The medical monitoring system includes a system central processing unit (CPU), and a normal ejection-fraction range managed by the system CPU. First, continuous echocardiographic data for a heart of a patient is received with system CPU. Next, a real-time ejec...