ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,437, issued on July 22, was assigned to Medtronic Monitoring Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method of patient monitoring and signal quality analysis" was invented by Niranjan Chakravarthy (Singapore), Scott Williams (Shoreview, Minn.), Arthur K. Lai (Minnetonka, Minn.), Brion C. Finlay (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) and Rodolphe Katra (Blaine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining signal quality in a patient monitoring device includes acquiring one or more signals using the patient monitoring device. One or more signal quality metrics are determined based on the one or more acquired signals. A noise condition is ...