ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,897, issued on June 24, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"COPD monitoring" was invented by Cristoph Tobias Wirth (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Ioanna Sokoreli (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for planning resources for a plurality of COPD RPM programs. Each RPM program is tailored to a different level of disease acuity. Assessment data is obtained relating to the severity of COPD symptoms in respect of a set of patients currently following one of the RPM programs. For each patient, a prediction is made of which RPM program is most likely to be appr...