ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,878, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem (Budapest, Hungary).
"Method and system for processing a phonocardiographic signal characterizing fetal breathing movement" was invented by Ferenc Kovacs (Budapest, Hungary) and Marton Aron Goda (Budapest, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a method for processing a phonocardiographic signal characterising fetal breathing movement (FBM), wherein in initial start point (SP) determination (S100) in frequency filtering (S110), bandpass-filtered signals of frequency subbands by first and second bandpass filters are generated from the phonocardiog...