ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,547, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Multi-disease patient management" was invented by Qi An (Shoreview, Minn.), Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur (Woodbury, Minn.), Viktoria A. Averina (Shoreview, Minn.) and Julie A. Thompson (Circle Pines, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring patients with multiple chronic diseases are described. A system may include a health status monitor that receives diagnostic data including physiological signals sensed from a patient. The system may produce at least a first risk indication of the patient developing a first disease an...