US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Detecting increasing fluid in a lung of a subject" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,800, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Detecting increasing fluid in a lung of a subject" was invented by Niko Tapani Kiukkonen (Veikkola, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting increasing fluid in a lung of a subject, the method comprising: at a first time, determining a first difference between a time of arrival of a first feature of a received electrical signal of a subject's heart beat and a time of arrival of a second feature of a received acoustic signal of the subject's heart beat; at a second later time, determining a second difference between a time of arrival...