US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on March 18 for "Systems and methods for fetal monitoring" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,228, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for fetal monitoring" was invented by Paul A. Friedman (Rochester, Minn.), Dorothy J. Ladewig (Mazeppa, Minn.), Itzhak Zachi Attia (Rochester, Minn.) and Kyle D. Traynor (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system obtains a maternal electrocardiogram (ECG) signal that represents an ECG of a pregnant mother during a first time interval. The system further obtains a mixed maternal-fetal ECG signal that represents a combined ECG of the mother and her fetus during the first time interval; pro...