US Patent Issued to EmpNia on Jan. 28 for "Method and apparatus for breath-hold monitoring in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,892, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to EmpNia Inc. (Edina, Minn.).

"Method and apparatus for breath-hold monitoring in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures" was invented by Manojeet Bhattacharya (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compensating for dynamic changes in a body of a patient during a controlled interaction with the body includes acquiring data from at least one sensing device disposed on the body and detecting a change along at least one optical fiber of the sensing device caused by dynamic changes associated with the body during the controlled interaction. A respiratory gating signal is generated b...