US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for estimating the reliability of cardiac output measurements" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,876, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhovent, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for estimating the reliability of cardiac output measurements" was invented by Laura Ioana Bogatu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Jens Muehlsteff (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating the reliability of cardiac output (CO) measurements obtained using an arterial waveform analysis (AWA) technique calibrated using thermodilution. During thermodilution calibration: (i) initiating inflation of a cuff that is at a location on the subject, (ii) obtaining a first cuff pressure signal comprising mea...