ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,899, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).
"System and method for predicting heart failure hospitalization" was invented by Alessio Gargaro (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for predicting heart failure hospitalization, comprises a processing device configured to process data derived from signals sensed by an implantable medical device, the signals being indicative of cardiac activity, to obtain a heart failure prediction index. The processing device is configured to process a multiplicity of variables relating to different cardiac characteristics to obtain a multiplicity of processed variables...