US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on April 22 for "Phonocardiogram (PCG)-based in-cabin heart monitoring" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,891, issued on April 22, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (Limerick, Ireland).

"Phonocardiogram (PCG)-based in-cabin heart monitoring" was invented by Sudheer Babu (Therlam mandal, India) and Harsh Bolia (Udaipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heart monitoring system includes at least two sensors embedded in a seat, such as a driver's seat in a vehicle. One of the sensors obtains a phonocardiogram (PCG) of the driver's heart in addition to noise. Another sensor is a reference sensor that obtains a noise signal, but does not include the PCG signal. Processing circuitry receives the heart signal with ...