ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,847, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Method and an apparatus for detecting a level of cardiovascular disease" was invented by Itzhak Zachi Attia (Rochester, Minn.), Paul A. Friedman (Rochester, Minn.), Peter A. Noseworthy (Rochester, Minn.), Joerg Herrmann (Rochester, Minn.), Yash Gupta (Bangalore, India), John Rincon-Hekking (Cambridge, Mass.), Ashim Prasad (Bangalore, India), Rakesh Barve (Bengaluru, India) and Samir Awasthi (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for detecting a level of cardiovascular disease. The apparatus includes ...