ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,555, issued on April 15, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).
"Multi-sensor patch" was invented by Mohammad Khair (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), Steven M. Falk (Baltimore) and Jean-Francois Pieri (Nottingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sensing the heart rate and blood oxygen saturation of a maternal patient and a fetal patient can include obtaining maternal electrocardiogram (mECG) data and fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) data with a plurality of electrodes. The method can also include obtaining photosignal data with an optical sensor, the photosignal data including a maternal photosignal ...