ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,032, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and systems for determining breathing rate and heart rate from cardiopulmonary signals" was invented by Smriti Rani (Kolkata, India), Anwesha Khasnobish (Kolkata, India), Arindam Ray (Kolkata, India) and Tapas Chakravarty (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to determining a breathing rate and a heart rate from cardiopulmonary signal. Conventional systems use additional hardware to improve signal quality or different signal processing techniques to calculate the heart rate from the cardiopulmon...