US Patent Issued to North Carolina State University on June 10 for "Fetal health monitoring system and method for using the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,654, issued on June 10, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Fetal health monitoring system and method for using the same" was invented by Michael Daniele (Raleigh, N.C.) and Michael Wilkins (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wearable fetal health monitoring device for determining a heath condition of a fetus based on biosignals of an expecting mother and the fetus is provided. The device includes a MEMS accelerometer that converts an acoustic wave sensed in an abdominal region into an abdominal acoustic signal. The device also includes a pulse oximeter generates a maternal photoplethysmogram (...