ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,318, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Lung sound analysis system" was invented by Masao Higuchi (Tokyo), Mitsuru Noma (Tokyo), Reishi Kondo (Tokyo) and Yumi Arai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lung sound analysis system includes a storage means for storing therein the history of auscultation observations on lung sound data of each of auscultation positions of a subject who is a heart failure patient, a calculation means for calculating appearance frequency of abnormal sounds for each of the auscultation positions on the basis of the history, a determination means for determining the sequence of the auscul...