ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,294, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN DIGITAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method for synchronizing biological signals from different monitoring devices" was invented by Timothy Ruchti (Gurnee, Ill.), Joshua Andrew Ehrenberg (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Abel Lin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for time-synchronizing waveforms from different patient monitors that does not require devices to have high-precision synchronized clocks or to be coupled to a triggering synchronization signal generator. Comparable signals may be obtained from different devices either by placing selected sensors from the ...