ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,069, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Marani Health Inc. (Oakdale, Minn.).

"System for acquisition and analysis of maternal and/or fetal physiological signals" was invented by Ann Holder (Stillwater, Minn.), Kathleen Ann Tune (Minneapolis), Christian Larson (Minneapolis), Mark Holm (Rochester, Minn.), Mehdi Shokoueinejad (New Brighton, Minn.) and Ognjen Milicevic (Belgrade, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a wearable device configured to be worn by a pregnant patient and including a plurality of electrodes, the wearable device configured to sense a first patient data associated with the patient and her fetus,...