US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Oct. 28 for "Maternal and fetal heart rate monitor" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,484, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Maternal and fetal heart rate monitor" was invented by Dennis Matthews (Meadow Vista, Calif.), Xiaomeng Gao (Dublin, Calif.), Xiaonan Jiang (Davis, Calif.), Xiaoguang Liu (Davis, Calif.), Jeremy Thompson (Grange, Australia), Kylie Dunning (Prospect, Australia), Kenneth Pawlak (Reno, Nev.) and Chris Ryman (Crystal Bay, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for non-invasive pregnancy testing. The systems, devices, and methods can be used to provide pregnancy status information of a sub...