ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,526, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to OMRON HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Wheeze detection apparatus, wheeze detection method, and wheeze detection program" was invented by Naoto Ohgami (Kyoto, Japan), Kei Asai (Kyoto, Japan), Kenji Hashino (Kyoto, Japan), Naoki Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan), Chizu Habukawa (Wakayama, Japan) and Katsumi Murakami (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a wheeze detection apparatus including: a sound measurer configured to measure a pulmonary sound of a measurement subject; a respiratory sound volume deriver configured to derive a respiratory sound volume of the measurement s...