US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Body appendage position prediction using electrocardiogram data" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,254, issued on May 20, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Body appendage position prediction using electrocardiogram data" was invented by Rasha Mohammad Aieidan (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Arwa Mohammed Alanazi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Ghala Ibrahim Alsougheir (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are presented for recognizing position of a person's body appendage such as fingers using electrocardiogram data. An electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor placed on a user is in real time communication with a computing device containing a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained to rec...