US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 23 for "System and method for patient-ventilator synchronization/onset detection utilizing time-frequency analysis of EMG signals" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,045, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for patient-ventilator synchronization/onset detection utilizing time-frequency analysis of EMG signals" was invented by Upasana Ramakrishnan (Chennai, India), Sanketh Bhat (Bangalore, India), Etika Agarwal (Bangalore, India) and Adnan Kutubuddin Bohori (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for detecting onset of a spontaneous breath by a patient coupled to a ventilation system includes receiving, at a processor, an electromyography (EMG) signal from an EMG sensor disposed on the patient. The...