ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,506, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sonavi Labs Inc. (Baltimore).
"Digital stethoscope for counting coughs, and applications thereof" was invented by Ian Mitra McLane (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein improve digital stethoscopes and their application and operation. A first method detects of a respiratory abnormality using a convolution. A second method counts coughs for a patient. A third method predicts a respiratory event based on a detected trend. A fourth method forecasts characteristics of a future respiratory event. In a fifth embodiment, a base station is provided for a digital stethosco...