ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,197, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Cloud Dx Inc. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring medication effectiveness" was invented by Sara Ross-Howe (Campbellville, Canada), Vesal Badee (Kitchener, Canada), Lamiaa Amzil (Cambridge, Canada) and Robert Kaul (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for determining real-world effectiveness of various prescribed medications. Here a variety of different types of patient pulse wave measurements (e.g., blood pressure, pulse oximeter, ECG) and other physiological measurements are obtained. This actual data is compared to calculated measurements that wou...