US Patent Issued to Hill-Rom Services, Georgia Tech Research on Jan. 20 for "Bed-based ballistocardiogram apparatus and method" (Georgia, Indiana, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,524, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hill-Rom Services Inc. (Batesville, Ind.) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Bed-based ballistocardiogram apparatus and method" was invented by Hewon Jung (Atlanta), Jacob P. Kimball (Douglasville, Ga.), Omer T. Inan (Marietta, Ga.), Timothy J. Receveur (Guilford, Ind.) and Eric D. Agdeppa (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bed-based ballistocardiogram (BCG) enables non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring of a patient on a patient bed. A method for bed-based BCG recordings includes (1) creating templates for standing BCG signals obtained from subjects in a prior study, and (2)...