ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,915, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Michael Kleiner Shochat (Matan, Israel).

"Systems and methods for determining lung impedance" was invented by Roni Shabat (Kfar Yehezkel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining lung impedance of a subject by acquiring multiple impedance measurements from different areas of a thorax of the subject, using multiple electrical circuits, each electrical circuit comprising a pair of electrodes attached at different locations over the thorax of the subject. The acquisition of impedance measurements of all of the electrical circuits is done at the same timing-position(s...