ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,175, issued on July 1, was assigned to BIOSENCY (Saint-Gregoire, France).

"Method and system for evaluating the quality of a physiological signal" was invented by Gurvan Priem (Rennes, France) and Quentin Bodinier (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, intended for the evaluation of the quality of at least one periodic or quasi-periodic physiological signal, which includes the steps of: segmenting the physiological signal temporally into a plurality of signal segments; for each given signal segment, determining a distance representative of a shape difference between the given signal segment and at least one signal seg...