ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,038, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ResMed Pty Ltd (Australia).
"Method and apparatus for detecting and treating heart failure" was invented by Klaus Henry Schindhelm (Sydney), Ian Wilcox (Dawes Point, Australia) and Rachel Ann Coxon (Rosehill, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and systems provide methods of detecting a heart failure condition of a patient that may be based on one or more respiratory parameters of a patient. In an example embodiment, a monitoring device determines one or more heart failure condition indicators based on a measure of the patient respiratory airflow and/or a measure of treatment press...