US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on July 29 for "Method and apparatus for monitoring a patient" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,370, issued on July 29, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for monitoring a patient" was invented by Jonathan W. Valvano (Austin, Texas), John A. Pearce (Austin, Texas), Marc D. Feldman (San Antonio), Kaarthik Rajendran (Austin, Texas), John Porterfield (Austin, Texas), Anil Kottam (Cedar Park, Texas) and Wes Johnson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for monitoring a patient post operation having electrically conducting leads which are adapted to extend from inside the patient. The leads having electrodes adapted to communicate with a heart ...