ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,182, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Generation of M-mode data for detecting fetal cardiac activity" was invented by Soumabha Bhowmick (Bangalore, India), Karthik Krishnan (Bangalore, India), Karthik Raj Katipally (Bangalore, India), Giridhar Narasapura Rajagopalaiah (Bangalore, India), Celine Firtion (Surat, India), Subhendu Seth (Bangalore, India), Pallavi Vajinepalli (Bangalore, India), David Nigel Roundhill (Woodinville, Wash.) and Matthew Rielly (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for automatically generating and ranking M-mode lines for generating or definin...