US Patent Issued to ECOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPERIEURE on March 25 for "System and method for determining cardiac rhythm and/or respiratory rate" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,101, issued on March 25, was assigned to ECOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPERIEURE (Montreal).

"System and method for determining cardiac rhythm and/or respiratory rate" was invented by Alexis Martin (Montreal) and Jeremie Voix (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method to determine heart and/or breathing rates. The system comprises a shell configured to occlude an ear canal, an in-ear microphone located inside the shell to capture an audio signal inside the ear canal, and a processor operatively connected to the in-ear microphone, the processor being configured to analyse the audio signal in order to determine at least on...