ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,905, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Anusar Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Device and method for real time assessment and monitoring of thoracic fluid, air trapping and ventilation" was invented by Sriram Ganesan (Bangalore, India), Goutam Dutta (Bengaluru, India), Rahul Shukla (Bengaluru, India) and Jagdish Chander Suri (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are providing for detecting and monitoring thoracic fluid, air-trapping and ventilation assessment in real time, wherein data obtained from a non-invasive electrode patch is analyzed using analysis algorithms for an electrical equivalent model that have been p...