US Patent Issued to Cardiac Pacemakers on Oct. 21 for "Devices and methods for assessing pulmonary congestion using optical sensing" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,782, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Devices and methods for assessing pulmonary congestion using optical sensing" was invented by Jeffrey E. Stahmann (Ramsey, Minn.) and Keith R. Maile (New Brighton, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to devices and methods for assessing pulmonary congestion using optical sensing techniques. In an embodiment, a pulmonary congestion monitoring device can be included having a first optical emitter, wherein the first optical emitter can be configured to emit light at a first wavelength, such as at a near-infrared wavelength or a...