ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,792, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Processing unit and method for use in fetal monitoring" was invented by Christoph Florian Franck (Magstadt, Germany) and Markus Silvester Wohlschlager (Sindelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for deriving and displaying a time-averaged fetal heart rate signal in conjunction with microvariability information relating to variation in the beat-to-beat heart rate signal within the different time-averaging epochs or windows. Supplementary information is displayed, for example temporally aligned or registered with ...