US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Aug. 19 for "Acceleration based patient weight determination" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,125, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Acceleration based patient weight determination" was invented by Jonathan Bennett Shute (Eagan, Minn.), Rezwan Ahmed (Arden Hills, Minn.), Gezheng Wen (Shoreview, Minn.) and Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to determine a measure of patient weight using existing medical device sensors, comprising receiving acceleration information of a patient and, if a value of the acceleration information exceeds an activity threshold over a measurement window, detecting patient steps in t...