US Patent Issued to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS on Aug. 26 for "System and method for measuring edema at home and measurement pattern for use therewith" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,322, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS INC. (Waltham, Mass.).

"System and method for measuring edema at home and measurement pattern for use therewith" was invented by Daniel L. Sloat (Wakefield, Mass.) and Lisa Sysun (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for measuring edema, at home, is provided, along with a measuring pattern for use therewith. The system includes a computing system that has an imaging device, a processor, a memory, and a wireless transmitter. The computing system is configured to capture edema data of a patient and send the data to a remote doctor. T...