ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,826, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hong Kong Centre for Cerebro-cardiovascular Health Engineering Ltd. (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Garment for multi-channel ECG monitoring" was invented by Yuan-Ting Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Xinge Yu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Yiming Liu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Jingkun Zhou (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Sina Khazaee Nejad (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garment to be worn directly on the upper body of a person is formed from fabric and includes a flexible printed circuit board and a number of mounting points for electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes to which ECG electrodes can be ...