ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,658, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).
"System and method for apnea detection" was invented by Robert Filip Arnold Santala (Helsinki), Panu Takala (Helsinki) and Juha Virtanen (Helsinki).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impedance-based respiration monitoring system for apnea detection includes at least three surface electrodes configured to record impedance respiration data from a patient's torso, a signal processing system, and an apnea detection module. The signal processing system is configured to generate a first respiration lead formed by a first set of surface electrodes from the a...