ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,794, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Analytics for Life Inc. (Toronto).

"Method and system for signal quality assessment and rejection using heart cycle variability" was invented by Farhad Fathieh (North York, Canada), Michael Garrett (Wilmette, Ill.), Timothy William Fawcett Burton (Ottawa), Shyamlal Ramchandani (Kingston, Canada) and Abhinav Doomra (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exemplified methods and systems facilitate the quantification of cardiac cycle-variability as a metric of signal quality of an acquired signal data set and the rejection, based on that quantification, of said acquired signal data se...